On 04/08/2010 09:06 PM, joy c wrote:
How can I have a command .vimrc , plugins and other vim settings
common to both users and root user?
Currently I have everything set up with my username when I su to root
all my vim settings are gone.
Since (for the most part) I'm the only vim-user on my linux boxes
that also has root privs (there are some other admins that don't
use vim, and other vim users that aren't admin), I usually just
use a soft-link:
t...@rubbish:/home/tim$ su
r...@rubbish:/home/tim# cd ~
r...@rubbish:/root# ln -s ~tim/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
r...@rubbish:/root# ln -s ~tim/.vim ~/.vim
since root is allowed to read anybody's files.
If you have some root-specific things, you could have a vimrc
something like
source /home/tim/.vimrc
" set other root-specific stuff here...
though it may not find files within ~tim/.vim such as local
file-types and color-schemes, so you may have to link that much
or twiddle variables.
Another option would be to keep them under version control (such
as svn/hg/git/bzr) and then sync them up occasionally. This
allows for bidirectional sharing between the two, yet you can
edit one (your user or root vimrc) and still cherry-pick to
exclude portions when pushing to the other.
I prefer not to mess with the /etc/vimrc on the assumption that
by leaving it alone, upgrades won't try to make me think about it.
-tim
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