Customize vim for YAML

I'm doing some Ansible work (on RHEL 8), so I want the YAML configs for vim.  I have a yaml.vim file containing the syntax/etc, and a ~/.vimrc file:

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.yaml,*.yml so ~/.vim/yaml.vim

autocmd FileType yaml,yml set ai ts=2 sw=2 et number

While logged in as user ansible, that worked just peachy.  But then I copied the same files to the same places under ~ (root), and when I was root (via su or su -), vim was clueless about yaml.

I tried changing the ~root/.vim/yaml.vim in .vimrc to ~root/.vim/yaml.vim -- no joy.

With some digging I discovered that vi doesn't read .vimrc when you're root but vim does!!??  But vim didn't work either.

Out of exasperation I tried rebooting my Linux server.  Now it doesn't work for user ansible either!!??

I tried :source ~/.vimrc and it kinda worked.  That picked up the .vimrc settings but not the syntax-highlight stuff in yaml.vim, even if I did a :e! to force it to re-read the file and see the file suffix.  But that only worked for root!?  And only a few times.  Now it doesn't work.  :source ~/.vim/yaml.vim doesn't do anything either.

Help?

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