Bug#840592: vim: Setting in /etc/vim/vimrc no effect / not working

john johnw.mail at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 02:12:32 UTC 2016


Package: vim
Version: 2:8.0.0022-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

   Setting in /etc/vim/vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc.local no
   effect.

   Only setting in $HOME/.vimrc work.

   ls -l /usr/share/vimrc -> /etc/vim/vimrc
   ls -l /usr/share/vimfiles -> /etc/vim

   Please help, thank you.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***


-- Package-specific info:

--- real paths of main Vim binaries ---
/usr/bin/vi is /usr/bin/vim.gtk3
/usr/bin/vim is /usr/bin/vim.gtk3
/usr/bin/gvim is /usr/bin/vim.gtk3

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-grsec-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages vim depends on:
ii  libacl1      2.2.52-3
ii  libc6        2.24-3
ii  libgpm2      1.20.4-6.2
ii  libselinux1  2.5-3
ii  libtinfo5    6.0+20160917-1
ii  vim-common   2:8.0.0022-1
ii  vim-runtime  2:8.0.0022-1

vim recommends no packages.

Versions of packages vim suggests:
pn  ctags        <none>
pn  vim-doc      <none>
pn  vim-scripts  <none>

-- no debconf information



More information about the pkg-vim-maintainers mailing list