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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:44:55 -0500
From:      Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
To:        Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r372654 - in head/editors/vim: . files
Message-ID:  <20141129214455.1412a4e8@kan>
In-Reply-To: <547A81F8.8020807@sasktel.net>
References:  <201411162255.sAGMtAaW055221@svn.freebsd.org> <20141129200456.675a4b89@kan> <547A81F8.8020807@sasktel.net>

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On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:33:28 -0800
Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> wrote:

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> Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> >> Log:
> >>   Use vimrc from distribution.
> >> =20
> >>   Suggested by: many.
> >>
> >
> > Just in case it was not voiced before: IMHO, this is a change that
> > changes vim into something far less usable than before and rams that
> > down everyone's throat unceremoniously, leaving one with no other
> > sensible recourse other than maintaining own package build with this
> > option disabled. It this really something we should be doing to
> > 'attract young talent and look cool', as this supposedly was the
> > driving force for this commit? Since that talent, evidently, is
> > unable to configure own editor using one-liner in .vimrc, does it
> > warrant the sacrifice?
>=20
> Since this is the upstream default example, it's exactly what @sample
> is for.  If you simply replace the vimrc with your preferred one (or
> an empty file if that's your preference), it won't be overridden
> again, no need to maintain your own package or install from ports.

There is no such thing as upstream there as every Linux distribution
seems to ship own version of the /etc/vimrc file and they happen to
have saner defaults compared to what we install now.

RE: @sample, thanks for the tip, it definitely helps.


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