kernel 2.6.21.5, Slackware 12.0

Hi:
I want to avoid the redundancy of placing .vimrc in both /root and /home/foo. Couldn't it be placed somewhere, say, in /etc and its settings be valid for both root and foo? Regards.

You might try placing a copy of your .vimrc in /etc/vim/vimrc or possibly /usr/share/vim/vimrc.

Regards,


Fordeck

No use. Thanks anyways.

Make sure the vimrc file is not hidden in the mentioned paths (i.e. remove the leading period)


Regards,

Fordeck

Try /etc/vimrc. And remember you'll have to remove the .vimrc in users' home directories for /etc/vimrc to stand alone.

Of course I removed the leading period and I tried /etc/vimrc too with no success. But maybe /etc scripts are read only at boot time. I'll try this.

DonnieP brought up a good point:

Did you try that?

Regards,

Fordeck

It's true. Now I've done it. All I have is a vimrc in both /etc/ and /etc/vim/. And I have rebooted. But still no use. Thanks for the feedback.

What about /usr/share/vim/vimrc?

Regards,

Fordeck

I don't frequently use SLAX so the only example I have is to boot BackTrack 3 which was a Slackware distro. It uses the /usr/share/vim/vimrc path.

Ubuntu 10.04 uses a symlink in /usr/share/vim/vimrc to point to /etc/vim/vimrc. Anyway I hope you find the answer.

Regards,

Fordeck

According to the vim manpage:

/usr/share/vim/vimrc
System wide Vim initializations.

You will need to remove/rename any .vimrc in user's or root's $HOME for it to only use the system wide one. Also you do _not_ need to reboot. Vim will read files when you run it. If that still fails you can make vim use a config file with the -u switch. Perhaps you can alias it.

The thing with slack is that almost all of the variables mentioned in manuals are empty after installation. In this case, it is $VIM. Command :version says
So I wrote the following in /etc/profile:
and this solved the problem as /usr/share/vim/vimrc was already there. I only had to add 'set autoindent' at the end, this being a feature I wanted to add, although it already has a 'set autoindent' command above in that file. But for some reason, it won't get executed. I would have to study the script, and perhaps study a little more bash in order to understand this.

Anyways, the problem's been solved, and I thank you guys. Regards.

EDIT: No great science to understand what happens in /usr/share/vim/vimrc. It just was compiled with support for autocommands, be this whatever it be.

I copy my vimrc into /usr/share/vim/vimrc

I can access it from both root and my user account.