Description of problem: Documentation, i.e. 'man vim', explicitely says: ~/.vimrc Your personal Vim initializations. and does not mention anything else. Despite of this putting there initialization commands turns out to be completely ineffective. Tracing with 'vim -V' files which are actually read brings an explanation. This file is simply ignored. While /etc/vimrc IS consulted a few time this is not the case with ~/.vimrc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-7.4.640-4.fc23 How reproducible: always Additional info: The problem came to light with a "salad bar" syntax highlighting which made for me most of affected files _completely_ unreadable. Typing 'syntax off' all the time quickly gets really annoying. Putting these commands in a documented ~/.vimrc did not bring any relief. Yeah, I found undocumented ~/.vim/after/scripts.vim. How long this will last?
(In reply to Michal Jaegermann from comment #0) > Yeah, I found undocumented > ~/.vim/after/scripts.vim. How long this will last? Actually I am not sure why in the first moment I thought that ~/.vim/after/scripts.vim helps. It appeared to be working but it does not really. As for now apparently only direct editing of /etc/vimrc can bring any relief. Clearly this is far from a desired.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle. Changing version to '23'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23
vim-7.4.827-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 21. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14209
vim-7.4.827-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.