Hello, I have just successfully upgraded 12 physical machines to the new Debian release (Debian Buster) and can tell that the upgrade runs very smoothly. Very nice job by all contributors, thank you very much!
I have noticed, that files previously existing under /usr/share/vim/vimfiles
have been (automatically?) moved to /etc/vim which in my case effectively
disabled them, because when I type `:set runtimepath` in VIM, I get the
following:
runtimepath=~/.vim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim81,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after
To me, this indicates that `/usr/share/vim/vimfiles` is considered for
scripts, but `/etc/vim` is not.
My questions are as follows:
* Why has this happened?
From a technical point of view, the rename seems to be triggered by
vim-common's `postinst` script, which has a line:
dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir /usr/share/vim/vimfiles /etc/vim
2:8.1.0639-2\~ vim-common -- "$@"
While it is not exactly clear to me what it does, it looks as if
for some reasons the rename from /usr/share/vim/vimfiles to /etc/vim is
programmed by this. The command has a comment:
# Automatically added by dh_installdeb/12.1.1
which leaves me unclear to why this is actually there?
* Am I right to assume that /usr/share/vim/vimfiles should for some reason
no longer be used (why else the rename)? If that is the case: What is an
alternative outside the `/etc` region? I would like to provide a custom
syntax file by means of a package and up to now, I am successfully writing
it to `/usr/share/vim/vimfiles`. In fact, updating my package without
doing any changes caused the files to be rewritten under
`/usr/share/vim/vimfiles` which effectively re-enabled them...
If anyone knows details about this, some explanation would be very much
appreciated :)
In case it is needed/useful or part of the problem, I have attached my
`vimrc`.
Thanks in advance
Linux-Fan
" Customized Ma_Sys.ma VIMRC 1.0.0.24, Copyright (c) 2013--2015, 2017 Ma_Sys.ma.
" For further info send an e-mail to ma_sys...@web.de.
runtime! debian.vim
set nocompatible
set backspace=indent,eol,start " more powerful backspacing
set history=400 " keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler " show the cursor position all the time
if filereadable("/usr/share/mdvl/d5man/d5manaddrc.vim")
source /usr/share/mdvl/d5man/d5manaddrc.vim
endif
if has("syntax")
syntax on
syntax sync minlines=256
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.ma setfiletype masysma_note
endif
set background=dark
" Source a global configuration file if available
if filereadable("/etc/vim/vimrc.local")
source /etc/vim/vimrc.local
endif
" Use \te to play tetris
if filereadable("/usr/share/mdvl/tetris.vim")
source /usr/share/mdvl/tetris.vim
elseif filereadable("tetris.vim")
source tetris.vim
endif
" HEX Editing using :Hexmode copied from
" http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Improved_hex_editing
" ex command for toggling hex mode - define mapping if desired
command -bar Hexmode call ToggleHex()
" helper function to toggle hex mode
" If you really need a hex-editor, do not use this. Use dhex instead (unless
" you are under windows, then you are out of luck)!
function ToggleHex()
" hex mode should be considered a read-only operation
" save values for modified and read-only for restoration later,
" and clear the read-only flag for now
let l:modified=&mod
let l:oldreadonly=&readonly
let &readonly=0
let l:oldmodifiable=&modifiable
let &modifiable=1
if !exists("b:editHex") || !b:editHex
" save old options
let b:oldft=&ft
let b:oldbin=&bin
" set new options
setlocal binary " make sure it overrides any textwidth, etc.
let &ft="xxd"
" set status
let b:editHex=1
" switch to hex editor
%!xxd
else
" restore old options
let &ft=b:oldft
if !b:oldbin
setlocal nobinary
endif
" set status
let b:editHex=0
" return to normal editing
%!xxd -r
endif
" restore values for modified and read only state
let &mod=l:modified
let &readonly=l:oldreadonly
let &modifiable=l:oldmodifiable
endfunction
set printfont=courier:h9 " Smaller printing font size
set printoptions=formfeed:y,paper:a4
set hlsearch
highlight Search ctermbg=LightGreen
set title
set showcmd
" Copied from http://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html
set wildmenu
set lazyredraw
" Copied from http://amix.dk/vim/vimrc.html
set noerrorbells
set tm=500
set ffs=unix,dos,mac
set laststatus=2
" disable bells
set vb t_vb=
" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4775605/vim-syntax-highlight-improve-
" performance
set nocursorcolumn
set nocursorline
if exists("+colorcolumn")
set colorcolumn=80
hi ColorColumn ctermbg=DarkBlue
endif
set numberwidth=6
set nonumber
highlight LineNr cterm=NONE ctermbg=DarkGray ctermfg=White
" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13093289/gvim-dynamically-change-font-
" based-on-window-size
function MaAutomaticLineNumbers()
if winwidth(0) > 86
set number
else
set nonumber
endif
endfunction
if has("gui_running")
" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4229658/why-some-people-use-if-
" hasgui-running-in-a-gvimrc
set number
" http://eclim.org/eclimd.html#eclimd-headless
set guioptions=cf
set guioptions-=m " No menu
set guioptions-=T " No toolbar
set mouse=
set t_Co=8
" TODO Find better colorscheme
" Ideally, it should look exactly like in the terminal in `gvim`
color koehler
else
autocmd VimResized * call MaAutomaticLineNumbers()
" hack, WinResized would be better
autocmd WinEnter * call MaAutomaticLineNumbers()
call MaAutomaticLineNumbers()
endif
" Skip unwanted new Debian Stretch defaults (incsearch, autoindent), 2017/07/15
let skip_defaults_vim=1
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