On 15/10/11 23:53, Frederico Cadete wrote:
I had a similar experience when I recompiled Vim, coming from using
vim as packaged by Ubuntu.
The differences in behaviour were annoying, but they were not because
of the compiling options; it was because of the "system vimrc" (in
this case /usr/share/vim73/debian.vim, if memory does not fail me),
which sets some default vim options.
The system vimrc would of course not be called that on RedHat / Fedora,
but in any Vim executable you can find out where it looks for a system
vimrc by looking near the middle of the output of :version (if Vim is
running) or of "vim --version" (or "gvim --version" etc., and without
the quotes) if it isn't.
By default the system vimrc is at $VIM/vimrc (with no dot) but that can
be changed at compile-time and one often-used location on Unix-like
systems is /etc/vimrc
Maybe the difficulties your students are having are not just because
of version but also because of system options.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Frederico
Best regards,
Tony.
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