On 2013-06-04, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Skeept wrote: > > > On Monday, April 15, 2013 6:49:57 AM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > Lech Lorens wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 13-Apr-2013 Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > Thanks. Thus only when ~/.vimrc does not exist then ~/.vim/vimrc will > > > > > be used. That should work for places where a new Vim is installed. > > > > > For > > > > > older Vim versions one would have to create a ~/.vimrc file that > > > > > sources > > > > > ~/.vim/vimrc. > > > > > > > > Do we want to change the priority? I meant not to confuse people if by > > > > any chance they have both ~/.vimrc and ~/.vim/vimrc. > > > > > > In my opinion, when a user sees a ~/.vimrc he expects it to be used and > > > would be very surprised when it is skipped. That is both for existing > > > Vim users and any generic Unix user. Far fewer people would know about > > > the possibility for a ~/.vim/vimrc to exist. > > > > I don't remember if the patch discussed in this thread made it vim > > already... > > If not is it to late to include for 7.4? > > It's under the "slightly incompatible changes" list. > I'll probably include it, but I wonder if it hurts anyone.
If someone has a ~/.vimrc it won't make any difference. If someone does not have a ~/.vimrc but does have a ~/.vim/vimrc, the latter will be sourced now whereas it was not before. That could happen if someone moved aside their ~/.vimrc for testing or debugging, or is using ~/.exec instead of ~/.vimrc to share settings between vim and another vi, or is using EXINIT instead of ~/.vimrc for some reason. Those are the situations I can think of where this change might take someone by unhappy surprise. All are cases where someone is configuring Vim by unusual means _and_ happens to have a file named vimrc laying around in their ~/.vim directory. It they don't like the new behavior and don't want to change what they're doing, their only solution is to rename their ~/.vim/vimrc file. It doesn't seem like a big risk or problem to me, but I can't say there's no risk. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
