Re: New version of vim unsolicitedly sourcing defaults.vim?

Hi,

The following FreeBSD bug may be relevant to this:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251420

- Yegappan

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 2:06 PM Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net> wrote:

Tim Chase wrote:

> I upgraded packages on my FreeBSD box yesterday and noticed that
> vimrc behavior had changed.
>
> Prior to the upgrade, if I had a ~/.vimrc it wouldn't source the
> defaults.vim file.
>
> :help VIMINIT
>
> >  The first that exists is used, the others are ignored.
>
> and it proceeds to list .vimrc (which I have) and, later down,
> defaults.vim (which should be ignored because I have a .vimrc)
>
> However, 'scrolloff' and 'mouse' are now annoyingly getting set
> (along with other defaults.vim tweaks):
>
>   :verbose set scrolloff? mouse?
>     mouse=nvi
>       Last set from /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/defaults.vim line 85
>     scrolloff=5
>       Last set from /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/defaults.vim line 51
>
> According to tracing startup:
>
>   :scriptnames
>   1: /usr/local/etc/vim/vimrc
>   2: /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/defaults.vim
>   3: /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/filetype.vim
>   4: /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/ftplugin.vim
>   5: /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/indent.vim
>   6: /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
>   7: /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/syntax/synload.vim
>   8: /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syncolor.vim
>   9: /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/colors/lists/default.vim
>  10: /usr/local/share/vim/vim90/syntax/nosyntax.vim
>  11: ~/.vimrc
>  [snip]
>
> it's the /usr/local/etc/vim/vimrc causing the issue.
>
> Is this a FreeBSD package customization problem (and I should go
> grumble to the FreeBSD package maintainer(s)), or did the default
> system vimrc start ignoring the description in `:help VIMINIT`, and
> force defaults.vim on those of us who detest it (in which case,
> please revert this)?

Vim does not include a system-wide vimrc file that would go in
/usr/local/etc/vim.  Does this file source defaults.vim?  Then that's a
problem of FreeBSD.

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