Many thanks for the bug report!

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 07:01:30AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Package: vim
> Version: 1:6.4-007+1

Is this the version of vim you have installed?

> When invoked as vi, /etc/vim/virc is never invoked.  This is because
> vim is sourcing $VIM/virc, and $VIM is /usr/share/vim, which has symlinks
> to /etc/vim for vimrc and gvimrc... but not virc.

Thanks, will be fixed in the next upload.

> FWIW, I still like to have a vimrc.local for common changes that I don't
> want to copy to both vimrc and gvimrc.  You can rename it to vimrc.common
> if you like, but it's still convenient.

It's up to you, you can have whatever changes you want in your system
wide vim configuration files. The NEWS item about the .local files was
about the _default_ Debian vim configuration files not sourcing them in
the future. Since we did that in the past, users should be informed if
we change our mind.

Cheers.

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