On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:17 AM, tooth pik <toothpik6@gmail.com> wrote:
-- This is one example of confusion created by vimrc_example. I think it's
cute and all, but believe it should never be loaded in its entirety and
most especially never recommended as Best Use to newbies.
> Another way would be to delete the autocommands in the vimrcExanother ugly hack
> group,
> augroup vimrcEx
> au!
> augroup END
toothpick et al:
You make some good points about the example vimrc file, but there is enough good stuff in there that I plan to continue recommending it to newbies. Maybe we can compromise:
:runtime vimrc_example.vim
is good advice for real newbies, but as soon as they run into trouble (as Aaron did) it means they care enough to follow your advice.
Another advantage of using the example file is that you benefit if it gets updated. How many of us have really crufty personal vimrc files? I m pretty sure that, at one point, the Red Hat package maintainers copied an example vimrc file (and maybe modified it) as their system vimrc file, then let it get very stale. (They did other things that bothered me ...)
Because vim is flexible by design (:help design-flexible) we should also say what to do in case Aaron chooses not to take your advice. I do not see anything hacky about deleting the single offending autocommand:
:au! vimrcEx FileType
HTH --Benji Fisher
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