Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:37:07 +0000 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r372622 - in head/editors/vim: . files Message-ID: <91D8CCEA-BA20-4185-98FF-145A0F9810D6@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20141116113525.GH45145@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <201411160232.sAG2WJ4Z084790@svn.freebsd.org> <54687C89.20206@gmx.de> <F61D76AA4CF82F5E4FC8BFAF@atuin.in.mat.cc> <20141116113345.GG45145@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20141116113525.GH45145@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On 16 Nov 2014, at 11:35, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > That said isn't using the default upstream provided vimrc a better = option than a > custom one? > /usr/local/share/vim/vim74/vimrc_example.vim as vimrc > and probably /usr/local/share/vim/vim74/gvimrc_example.vim as gvimrc? I think that would be better. My .vimrc, as a result of following the = instructions on the vim web site many years ago, starts with: source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim Anyone following the vim upstream instructions will expect to be able to = customise the settings by creating a .vimrc that starts like this and = then overrides the things that they want to be different. Thanks to everyone who's working on this: I recently had one of our = students complain that vim on FreeBSD 'defaults to just plain vi' unlike = the Linux distributions he was working on. I hadn't noticed the = difference, as my .vimrc is one of the first things I copy across to a = new system, but on closer investigation he was right and the fix (for = him) was trivial: that one-line .vimrc. It would be great if people = didn't have to bother with that: if you've gone to the trouble of = installing vim (and typing vim instead of vi to launch it), it's = probably because you want vim, not vi. David
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