On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Patch 7.4.2319
> Problem: No way for a system wide vimrc to stop loading defaults.vim.
> (Christian Hesse)
> Solution: Bail out of defaults.vim if skip_defaults_vim was set.
> Files: runtime/defaults.vim
Well, well well... Myself, I never put much trust in "system vimrc
files", and OTOH I rely on several settings which used to be in
vimrc_example.vim and are now in defaults.vim. My own-compiled Vim
loads his from /usr/local/share/vim/vimrc (which doesn't exist) rather
than /etc/vimrc (used by the distro) but this prompted me (just in
case, y'know) to add
if exists('skip_defaults_vim')
unlet skip_defaults_vim
endif
in my .vimrc, immediately before
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
thus intentionally defeating what I call "misguidedly
well-intentioned" system administrators like Christian Hesse and Gary
Fishburn, who would want to use a system vimrc in order to prevent the
defaults.vim from loading.
I must say to Christian and Gary's defense that apparently they didn't
intend this mechanism to be used in the presence of a ~/.vimrc. I
suppose that their system vimrc's will have to use
if !filereadable('~/.vimrc')
let skip_defaults_vim = 1
endif
wrapping the disabling of defaults.vim within a (negative) test for
the existence (and readability) of ~/.vimrc, but I don't trust that no
sysadmin will be misguided enough do do away with the test.
Best regards,
Tony.
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