On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 17:00, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote: > > On 2020-02-13, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote: > > 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. > > From ":help -C": > > -C Compatible mode. Sets the 'compatible' option. You can use > this to get 'compatible', even though a .vimrc file exists. > Keep in mind that the command ":set nocompatible" in some > plugin or startup script overrules this, so you may end up > with 'nocompatible' anyway.
Thanks. I was looking at the wrong section of the help file. (For posterity, setting "mouse=r" did what I meant to do). -- 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/CAEJNuHz1%2BhFhdh9UKqtL%3DPG6O7jd9Vh_zrvvvn5cLq7T-uzBHg%40mail.gmail.com.