yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #905 - #2

[Derick Centeno]

Thanks for your suggestion Christopher, however prior to your comment I
had reviewed some information prepared by vim.org (the people who
created vim) and in their FAQ pages they don't recommend what you
propose for the sake of stability and consistency between varying
versions of vim.  Meaning that if one goes along the route you suggested
then when you download the next version of vim you will be out of sync
as you will have modified vim's resource file.  

However manipulating vim through EXINIT allows the resource file to
remain untouched while achieving the variation one wants.  In the AIX
OS, one could invoke EXINIT from within .profile and look something
like:

EXINIT='set nu colorscheme=evening'

Within YDL 3.0, I'm assuming the analogue would be .bash_profile.  I'm
not sure it is as I have tried the above and gotten reported errors
regarding EXINIT.

I'll reexamine the FAQ's from vim.org and make sure I didn't interpret
them incorrectly; I'll also reconsider your suggestion which may work in
spite of what they say.  If I discover something else along these lines
I'll report it here.  Thanks.

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 14:01, Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:55:22 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Christopher Murtagh <christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca>
> To: YDL Gen <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: Re: controlling vim within YDL
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> On 4 Jun 2003, Derick Centeno wrote:
> >I want to modify vim via the number and colorscheme variables which are
> >controlled through EXINIT.  Within the AIX OS this would be done through
> >the .profile file, but I believe the analog of that file in YDL is
> >the.bash_profile, The goal is to modify a key file so that I don't have
> >to modify vim in every individual session every time I invoke its use;
> >instead whenever I invoke vim I want it to "look up" this key file and
> >utilize the variables definitions modifying vim's behavior to my liking.
> >So which file do I modify so that my prompts (resetting PS1 and PS2) and
> >vim behave are to the way I prefer.
> 
>  I think what you're refering to is '~/.vimrc'. You want to change vim's 
> default preferences right? Your .vimrc file is the place to do this. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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