Hi, this is a snippet or my vimrc:
$ cat .vim/vimrc source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim set dir=~/.vim/tmp set expandtab set autoindent iabbrev mydate <C-R>=strftime("%a %d/%m/%Y") digraph bl 8226 " Insert Bullet with <CTRL>+k bl map <f5> :1m$<cr> which sources the default vim system file, which in turn sets "nocompatible", as expected. So far. so good. If I start vim with: $ vim -C somefile I expect this to turn some features off, for example visual mode with mouse clicks, but it doesn't. If I manually set "compatible" from the ex command line, it does turn visual mode off. I assume I could put this is my vimrc, but I don't want to do this all the time. I could probably make an alias to: vim -c "set compatible" somefile However I wonder if this is intended behaviour or not, that is, I expected "vim -C" to override vimrc. My settings: $ vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Dec 13 2019 20:46:00) Included patches: 1-2200 Modified by m...@netbsd.org Compiled by oc@e130 Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): +acl -farsi -mouse_sysmouse -tag_any_white +arabic +file_in_path +mouse_urxvt -tcl +autocmd +find_in_path +mouse_xterm +termguicolors +autochdir +float +multi_byte +terminal -autoservername +folding +multi_lang +terminfo -balloon_eval -footer -mzscheme +termresponse +balloon_eval_term +fork() +netbeans_intg +textobjects -browse +gettext +num64 +textprop -builtin_terms -hangul_input +packages +timers +byte_offset +iconv +path_extra +title +channel +insert_expand -perl -toolbar +cindent +job +persistent_undo +user_commands -clientserver +jumplist +postscript +vartabs -clipboard +keymap +printer +vertsplit +cmdline_compl +lambda +profile +virtualedit +cmdline_hist +langmap -python +visual +cmdline_info +libcall -python3 +visualextra +comments +linebreak +quickfix +viminfo +conceal +lispindent +reltime +vreplace +cryptv +listcmds +rightleft +wildignore +cscope +localmap -ruby +wildmenu +cursorbind -lua +scrollbind +windows +cursorshape +menu +signs +writebackup +dialog_con +mksession +smartindent -X11 +diff +modify_fname -sound -xfontset +digraphs +mouse +spell -xim -dnd -mouseshape +startuptime -xpm -ebcdic +mouse_dec +statusline -xsmp +emacs_tags -mouse_gpm -sun_workshop -xterm_clipboard +eval -mouse_jsbterm +syntax -xterm_save +ex_extra +mouse_netterm +tag_binary +extra_search +mouse_sgr -tag_old_static system vimrc file: "/usr/pkg/etc/vimrc" user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc" 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc" user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc" defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim" fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/pkg/share/vim" Compilation: cc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/include -I/usr/pkg/include/ncurses -O2 -I/usr/include -I/usr/pkg/include/ncurses -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 Linking: cc -L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,--as-needed -o vim -lm -lnsl -lncurses -liconv -ldl -- Ottavio Caruso -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAEJNuHy%2BFp%3DNSaduUSBJp8HHmnMj5qVaDX0s5xeFAQ9%3DpMEqXQ%40mail.gmail.com.