X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45768891.1020007@ukf.net> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:08:33 +0000 From: Max Bowsher Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Thunderbird/1.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin [Attn base-files maintainer] References: <20061205212654 DOT 74613 DOT qmail AT web51015 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <31b7d2790612051406k781735e3lb4d096ef5cf38142 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <457657A0 DOT 8050500 AT byu DOT net> <20061206083838 DOT GL9829 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20061206083838.GL9829@calimero.vinschen.de> OpenPGP: id=C0F2C580 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig73432B9854CB5422E9AB1305" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com --------------enig73432B9854CB5422E9AB1305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --------------enig73432B9854CB5422E9AB1305 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) iD8DBQFFdoiafFNSmcDyxYARArSNAJ9qnDYy4YDnihbWA7XC3sQuxO8eogCfQnm9 xhNOsHRSZafftPnKllPHujk= =tdNF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig73432B9854CB5422E9AB1305--