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Subject: Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin [Attn base-files   maintainer]
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  5 22:39, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Is it worth the base-files maintainer providing a default .vimrc file th=
at
>> gets installed alongside all the other default .*rc files for new users?
>=20
> Sure!  It shouldn't contain too esoteric stuff, though, just a few basic
> settings like, say, autoindent, nocompatible, syntax on.


The mere existence of a .vimrc causes nocompatible to be the default, so
it need not even explicitly set that one.

Max.


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