[OmniOS-discuss] [developer] OmniOS r151020 is now out!

[Dan McDonald]

Narrowing to OmniOS-discuss...

I'm glad you shared this.  I'm an emacs person for big things, but vi for small, and was wondering if vi/vim people had advice for the new world of VIM 8.0.

Thanks!
Dan

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> On Nov 5, 2016, at 7:10 AM, Andy Fiddaman <omnios at citrus-it.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Dan McDonald wrote:
> ;    - VIM 8.0
> 
> Thanks Dan - we've now upgraded half of our servers without zones on them
> without any problems.
> 
> One note for anyone who has created their own system-wide vimrc file -
> /usr/share/vim/vimrc - vim8 will override options set in there with
> the defaults in /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim. That's a change
> in behaviour from earlier vim versions.
> 
> To stop the defaults.vim file from being used at all, add this to the system
> vimrc:
> 
>    let skip_defaults_vim=1
> 
> Another solution for anyone who wants to load the system defaults but then
> override specific options is the following. In this example I want to
> turn off the 'ruler' option for everyone by default but still take
> advantage of the defaults.
> 
>    # cat /usr/share/vim/vimrc
>    unlet! skip_defaults_vim
>    source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
>    let skip_defaults_vim=1
>    set noruler
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andy
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