[H-GEN] Vim System Wide

[Russell Stuart]

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On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 09:43, Raymond Smith wrote:
> On my work system (RedHat 9), man vim(1) says:
> 
>   /usr/share/vim/vimrc
>   /usr/share/vim/gvimrc
> 
> Interestingly, these files do *not* seem to exist by
> default. There are also a large number of configuration
> files (syntax highlighting, etc) under /usr/share/vim/vim61

On my RedHat 8.0 system, the manual says the same thing.  But an strace
of vim reveals that it does not try to open those files.  Instead in
tried to open:

     /usr/share/vim/vim61/macros/vimrc
and  /usr/share/vim/vim61/macros/gvimrc

My guess is the manual on RedHat 8.0 is wrong.

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