Description of problem: 'man vim' says: /usr/share/vim/vimrc System wide Vim initializations. ~/.vimrc Your personal Vim initializations. System wide initializations are actually read from /etc/vimrc and ~/.vimrc is simply ignored, as it is easy to see by running strace, even if other places in documentation and examples like /usr/share/vim/vim71/vimrc_example.vim claim otherwise. With strace one can find that there are attempts to read various files in ~/.vim/ but what could be differences between those is anybodys guess. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-7.1.291-1.fc9 vim-7.1.245-1.fc8 How reproducible: always
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The described problem equally affects vim-enhanced-7.2.148-1.fc11 from the current rawhide, and vim-enhanced-7.2.148-1.fc10, so you can add f10, f11 and rawhide to a breakage list.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I tried that with vim-7.2.245-3.fc12. There is some improvement because vim now indeed tries to read ~/.vimrc as it is claimed in a documentation that it would. But it searches for many files not mentioned at all (assorted files in various subdirectories of ~/.vim/, and ~/_vimrc, and ~/.exrc). Also manpage still says: /usr/share/vim/vimrc System wide Vim initializations. ........ /usr/share/vim/gvimrc System wide gvim initializations. but nothing like that exists and /etc/vimrc is read instead. gvim attempts to look at /etc/gvimrc, which does not exist either, but luckily it checks with /etc/vimrc too. In conclusion it seems to me that calling that ERRATA is wildly too optimistic.
please wait for 7.2-314 or newer, I'm fixing bugs and close the bugzillas while doing that.
vim-7.2.315-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/vim-7.2.315-1.fc12
vim-7.2.315-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/vim-7.2.315-1.fc11
vim-7.2.315-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/vim-7.2.315-1.fc10
vim-7.2.315-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
vim-7.2.315-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.