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

[James Vega]

tag 367818 + pending
thanks

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 07:01:30AM -0400, sacrificial-spam-address at horizon.com wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the bug report.  This will be fixed in the next upload.

> 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.

That's not necessary.  Gvim reads both the vimrc and gvimrc when it
starts.  The gvimrc is only useful if you want to have options set ONLY
in gvim.

James
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