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Package: neovim
Version: 0.11.6-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
I'm considering switching to neovim from vim and I'm wondering about
some differences between the implementations.
The "standard" vim ships a system-wide init config file in /etc/vim
which can be used to enable some things (syntax highlighting or
reopening a buffer at the same place).
I don't see a similar file for neovim. Looking at :initialization and
:verbose version I can see there could be a /usr/share/nvim/sysinit.vim
but I don't think it's wise for an admin to touch stuff in /usr/share.
Would it be possible to look in /etc/nvim and even maybe fall back to
/etc/vim for system-wide, admin configuration file?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'),
(450, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.18.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/14 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages neovim depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-13
ii libluajit-5.1-2 2.1.0+openresty20251030-1+b1
ii libtree-sitter0.25 0.25.9-7
ii libunibilium4 2.1.1-2+b2
ii libutf8proc3 2.10.0-2+b1
ii libuv1t64 1.51.0-2+b1
ii lua-lpeg 1.1.0-3
ii lua-luv 1.51.0-1-1
ii neovim-runtime 0.11.6-1
Versions of packages neovim recommends:
pn python3-pynvim <none>
ii xclip 0.13-4
ii xxd 2:9.1.2141-1
Versions of packages neovim suggests:
ii exuberant-ctags [ctags] 1:5.9~svn20110310-20
ii vim-scripts 20210124.5+nmu1
-- no debconf information
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 09:51:26AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
I don't see a similar file for neovim. Looking at :initialization and
:verbose version I can see there could be a /usr/share/nvim/sysinit.vim
but I don't think it's wise for an admin to touch stuff in /usr/share.
Would it be possible to look in /etc/nvim and even maybe fall back to
/etc/vim for system-wide, admin configuration file?
This is already supported. From ":help sysinit.vim"
*system-vimrc* *sysinit.vim*
a. The system vimrc file is read for initializations. If
nvim/sysinit.vim file exists in one of $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, it will be
used. Otherwise the system vimrc file is used. The path of this file
is given by the |:version| command. Usually it's "$VIM/sysinit.vim".
":echo stdpath('config_dirs')" shows your environment's set of config
dirs. In my case that's ['/etc/xdg/nvim'].
Cheers,
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