Re: eVim - easy Vim - How to make it work on Ubuntu?

On 18/07/14 10:31, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 18/07/14 08:14, Igor Forca wrote:
>> @ZyX, on my Windows machine I have cleaned-up _vimrc all of this
>> Windows specifics. For test the only command in my _vimrc is: "set
>> nocompatible". I even opened vim and execute command: e $MYVIMRC to
>> see if this file really opens up and takes effect and it does. So no
>> Windows specific shortcuts in _vimrc and all of described WORKS
>> successfully on Vim for Windows. But the same does not on Linux
>> (Ubuntu, Suse).
>>
>> @John Little, I tried starting "vim -u NONE -y file" but still no
>> success, the only shortcuts working is CTRL+A and CTRL+arrow_keys. The
>> same problem on Ubuntu/Suse.
>
> In some Linux distributions, including openSUSE but not necessarily
> limited to it, if you use the Vim packaged by the distribution (not one
> you compile yourself from Bram's sources), it sources a "system vimrc"
> even before checking if there is a user vimrc.
>
> To see, if this is the case on your Vim, do
>
> :version
>
> Near the middle of the output, you'll see a number of locations for Vim
> configuration scripts. One of them (usually the first one) is called
> "system vimrc file". Open that path/file (often, but not necessarily
> always, /etc/vimrc) in the same version of Vim. If it opens a blank
> window with [New File] in the status message at bottom, then you don't
> have a system vimrc for this Vim setup, you can close the window with
> ":q!" (including the exclamation mark but of course not the quotes).
> Otherwise you'll see what the distro has decided to dump on you "for
> your own good". Reading that may be quite instructive; it may even
> convince you to use an own-compiled version of Bram's Vim (with the
> executable at /usr/local/bin/vim, the runtime files as a tree starting
> at /usr/local/share/vim/vim73/ and the system vimrc, if any, at

-----------------------------^^ oops! vim74 already

> /usr/local/share/vim/vimrc with no dot or underscore in the filename) so
> you won't be a victim of do-gooders who act in your name without your
> say-so.
>
> You can even have your own-compiled Vim and the distro's Vim both
> present on the same system. Since /user/local/bin comes early in the
> $PATH, your own Vim takezs precedence, but the other one can still be
> invoked with a full path, or under another name from a softlink (e.g.
> /bin/vim-suse -> vim). Of course the distro's Vim uses its own system
> vimrc and its own runtime files, but your ~/.vimrc and (if any) anything
> under your ~/.vim/
>
>> Exactly the same as with only "vim -y myfile".
>>
>> @John Little, about "bonus question": I can't just close down with
>> ALT+F4, I am using headless = no GUI = terminal only server.
>
> I think I've heard there are headless setups where GUIs are possible.
> IIRC it requires "X forwarding" or something.
>
> You can always create a mapping, provided that Vim can get the {lhs},
> for example (untested)
>
> :imap <C-F4> <C-O>:qa<CR>
>
> to use Ctrl-F4 to exit Vim. This will still end in error (and not exit)
> if you have modified files, unless 'autowriteall' is set and the
> modified buffers can be saved.
>
>>
>>
>> Additional test:
>> I have now also checked the same on "Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop" and having
>> exactly the same problem with both starting commands (vim -y myfile
>> and vim -u NONE -y myfile), exactly the same problem. I have also
>> added only "set nocompatible" command in .vimrc file.
>>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

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