On 19/01/10 21:36, MK wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:28:45 -0500 (EST)
"Benjamin R. Haskell"<[email protected]> wrote:
Ubuntu 9.10's /usr/share/vim/vimrc contains:
if has("syntax")
syntax on
endif
Try commenting that out, for starters. Otherwise, I'll keep digging.
FC 9 and 10 don't appear to have a similar 'global vimrc'.
Yeah that's probably it. I'm not working in ubuntu right now but I had a look,
and that file (a softlink to /etc/vim/vimrc) is there. I previously
uninstalled the ubuntu vim -- the one I am using is in /usr/local -- which is
why such a conflict did not occur to me. I presume that the uninstall did not
remove those files, and that vim always checks a list of default directories
inc. /usr/share/vim (is that a good idea?)
Someone should send ubuntu a note about this since this is clearly a BAD
POLICY. If anyone connected with vim, etc wants to do so, please reply,
otherwise I'll go ahead.
"Good" and "bad" are subjective. The SuSE /etc/vimrc includes the following:
" Changed default required by SuSE security team--be aware if enabling this
" that it potentially can open for malicious users to do harmful things.
set nomodeline
disabling _all_ modelines in _all_ files for _all_ users. I don't agree
with the SuSE security team here (considering how diligent Bram has been
in the past to forbid setting "dangerous" options from a modeline), and
my vimrc (which is sourced after this in the versions which look at
/etc/vimrc for a system vimrc [including the Vim versions distributed by
SuSE, which are after my own-compiled /usr/local/bin/vim in the $PATH
but might get used for whatever reason]) includes a line which sets
'modeline' on.
Best regards,
Tony.
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