Bug#837761: vim: doesn't honor local admin settings in /etc/vim/vimrc.local

harald at a-little-linux-box.at harald at a-little-linux-box.at
Sat Oct 1 12:46:33 UTC 2016


Dear James McCoy,

while it's perfectly ok that upstream changed it's configuration I
consider it a bug that this configuration can't be overriden systemwide
- at least it seems the preferred way of creating a /etc/vim/vimrc.local
file can't override the set mouse=a setting (currently I modified the
/usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim file but as this file will be
overwritten when the package is upgraded I consider this a workaround,
not a solution).
>From my prelimiary analysis it seems the problem is that
/usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim gets included multiple times which it
definitly shouldn't. As it seems only possible to override this problem
on a per user base I would consider this definitly a bug...

Kind regards
Harald Jenny



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