I know it's been a long time since the original bug was reported and the last message was posted. However, I am unable to reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 20.04.2. Perhaps that's because I already have everything mentioned here as my own user. If I rename ~/.vimrc and ~/.viminfo and then run `sudo vi /etc/apt/source.list`, then a default .vimrc and .viminfo are not created in my user directory. I can also see that there is still nothing in /etc/skel related to vim.
It has been 8 years and things do change. I've only been using vim for a couple of years, so it's quite possible that the ~/.vimrc isn't created upon first running `vi` or `vim` anymore. What should we do with this bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to vim in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58002 Title: Some programs create root-owned files in user $HOME when run under sudo Status in vim package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: The first time I noticed this I thought I'd done something wrong. But 5 installations later, my .viminfo is always owned by root, causing certain things to malfunction or not function at all. For example I can't copy and paste text (vim-style) from one file to another, and despite my .vimrc magic my cursor is always on line 1, column 1 when I open a file. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/58002/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
