[H-GEN] Vim System Wide

[Paul Gearon]

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Russell Stuart wrote:
> Debian: Under /etc/vim
> RedHat: Under /usr/share/vim/vimXX/macros/
> 
> In both cases, the easiest way to find out is ask the package manager
> where it installed the files:
> 
> RedHat: rpm -q vim-minimal vim-enhanced vim-common vim-X11 | grep 'rc$'
> Debian: dpkg -L vim | grep 'rc$'

Doh!  Both this and Ben's suggestion of man *should* have been the first thing 
I looked for.  I guess I'm showing my frustration with documentation lately. 
(ie. most things I need *are* documented, but not anywhere that I can find it. 
  Hence I've stopped looking in the obvious places because I'm used to it not 
being there).

However, my main reason for replying here was to comment on the Debian 
configuration.  The file is indeed /etc/vim/vimrc, but vim is compiled to look 
in /usr/share/vim/vimrc.  On Debian this is a symlink to /etc/vim/vimrc.

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