On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 04:45:43PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 05:01:00PM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > > This is mentioned at the top of /etc/vim/vimrc: > > > > > > " Vim will load $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim if the user does not have a vimrc. > > On my freshly installed machine (for root), $VIMRUNTIME is not set,
$VIMRUNTIME is an internal variable Vim sets -- ":help $VIMRUNTIME". I can add an example value here to make it more obvious what the path is. > nor is there a "defaults.vim" neither below /etc nor /root. "dpkg -S defaults.vim" > If this is related to /usr/share/vim/vim82/defaults.vim, then this is > indeed not what I was looking for. Yes, it is what you're looking for, since that's what influences the behavior when there's no user vimrc. See ":help defaults.vim" and previous discussion in #842833. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB
