Sunday, June 7, 2015

Re: Sourcing .vimrc for use in bash shell?

On 06.06.15 22:24, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2015, Paul wrote:
> > I don't find that my vimrc settings take effect when using vi editing
> > mode in readline. However, I can use the fc commad to switch into
> > full fledged vim. Googling hasn't clarified whether it is built-in to
> > bash or a separate command (there's info indicating both cases). In
> > Cygwin, it seems to be a separate executable, so not part of bash.
>
> You can tell for sure what kind of command fc is with
>
> type fc
>
> in the shell. For me it outputs "fc is a shell builtin".

That, though, is not an answer to the question of the type of the
executable which fc runs - it just shows that the "fc" initiator is
builtin. A brief look in the bash manpage reveals that it merely serves
to launch either $FCEDIT or $EDITOR.

Here, executing:

$ fc 801

confirms that another linux process is spawned, running vim:

$ ps -ef | grep vim
...
erik 4800 3105 1 21:15 pts/1 00:00:00 vim /tmp/bash-fc-4288462453

And .vimrc is sourced by this vim process, just like any other, as
one would expect. In the bash-fc vim instance:

:echo $MYVIMRC
/home/erik/.vimrc

which is additionally confirmed by all the personal settings being
present.

(No need to google any of this stuff. :-)

Erik

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