On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 12:37:45 (+0300), Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 03:38:10PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> > On 21/08/17 05:31, Reco wrote:
> > > In jessie and before that one could put needed customizations
> > > into /etc/vim/vimrc (and it works as of stretch)
> > > or into /etc/vim/vimrc.local (and it's ignored in stretch).
> >
> > Looking at a stretch box (installed clean, not upgraded), /etc/vim/vimrc
> > has this at the bottom:
> >
> > " Source a global configuration file if available
> > if filereadable("/etc/vim/vimrc.local")
> > source /etc/vim/vimrc.local
> > endif
> >
> > So it should be read. Is yours not readable by the user? (I don't have
> > one at all; I haven't felt the need yet)
>
> No, permissions for /etc/vim/vimrc.local are 644.
> The problem is (had to use strace to figure this one out) that on vim
> start /etc/vim/vimrc.local is read first, and
> /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim after it.
>
> Therefore any customizations put into /etc/vim/vimrc.local can be
> overridden by defaults.vim, which is happpening for 'mouse' and
> 'incsearch' at least.
>
> Unless you forbid vim to interpret defaults.vim at all.
> It can be achieved by creating user's .vimrc, or 'g:skip_defaults_vim=1'.
How does all this relate to man vim which appears to be
at least a decade old/out of date? I wasn't aware that the
last action of man foo ’s $MANOPT should be to append
any or all of /usr/share/doc/foo*/*README* to the manpage.
Cheers,
David.
