Bug#367818: /usr/share/vim/virc symlink is missing

[Pierre Habouzit]

Le Jeu 18 Mai 2006 13:01, sacrificial-spam-address at horizon.com a écrit :
> Package: vim
> Version: 1:6.4-007+1
>
> When invoked as vi, /etc/vim/virc is never invoked.  This is because
> vim is sourcing $VIM/virc, and $VIM is /usr/share/vim, which has
> symlinks to /etc/vim for vimrc and gvimrc... but not virc.



> FWIW, I still like to have a vimrc.local for common changes that I
> don't want to copy to both vimrc and gvimrc.  You can rename it to
> vimrc.common if you like, but it's still convenient.

FWIW you can have that layout yourself, just have a vim.common sourced 
from vimrc and gvimrc, and you've got it. You're free to do it. We just 
deprecated its needed use to avoid missed configuration merges. we 
don't forbid to use it ;)
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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