[H-GEN] Vim System Wide

[Paul Gearon]

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Timothy Hitchens wrote:
> Can anyone remember where the system wide config for vim is located and
> what it is called.... I have carried out a full search for the obvious
> file names with no success.
> 
> Eg the same as .vimrc but for entire system.

No idea, but try running strace.  I just used the following on my debian system:
   strace -e trace=open -o vim.log vim

and found the following in the resulting log file:

open("/usr/share/vim/vimrc", O_RDONLY)  = 3
open("/usr/share/vim/vim61/filetype.vim", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/usr/share/vim/vim61/ftplugin.vim", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/mnt/home/pag/.vimrc", O_RDONLY)  = 3

So on my system the global config file is /usr/share/vim/vimrc.

Hmmmmm, now that I look at that file I see that there's lots of things I 
didn't know, like conditional statements.  I'll have to have a closer look at 
this....  :-)

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