Bug#864074: I agree

[Chris Zubrzycki]

I agree with most of this bug report. The config system is backwards, broken, and confusing. There needs to be the equivalent of the solution pasted here adopted as the default configuration.

" Explicitly source defaults.vim so you can override its settings
source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
" Prevent it from being loaded again later if the user doesn't have
" a vimrc
let skip_defaults_vim = 1
" Disable the settings you don't like
“ set mouse=

should be there as a default. Either fixed inthe code, or as the debian default config file. Just because upstream does a boneheaded thing, doesn’t mean it’s a package manager’s responsibility to blindly follow it. Debian changes defaults and packages all the time to fit the way Debian does things, and the way Debian uses expect. I try to limit my terminal use to Debian and OS X. I couldn’t care less what RedHat does with it’s vim settings.

Please change it so people don’t have to reconfigure every box they use to a sane default.


-chris zubrzycki
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