Re: git: a058c61ea36c - main - editors/vim: Update to 9.0.0369, and drop the FreeBSD vimrc

From: George L. Yermulnik <yz_at_yz.kiev.ua>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 19:36:02 UTC
Hello!

On Sat, 03 Sep 2022 at 18:03:56 (+0000), Adam Weinberger wrote:

>     editors/vim: Update to 9.0.0369, and drop the FreeBSD vimrc

Thank you!

>     Our FreeBSD vimrc has caused a lot of trouble. It seriously mangles
>     config loading order (see below PR for the 21 comments it took before
>     I could get my head around it), clobbers defaults, duplicates defaults,
>     and simply isn't how Vim does things.

>     In this patch, the system vimrc is dropped entirely. Instead,
>     $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim sources $VIMRUNTIME/defaults_freebsd.vim, which
>     contains only FreeBSD-specific settings (today, a convenience augroup
>     for port creation, and a flag to let syntax/sh.vim know that /bin/sh
>     isn't bash).

>     There is no perfect solution here, but by not clobbering anything
>     anymore, we at least don't *prevent* other solutions. You now get Vim's
>     defaults, and you are free to override them in your ~/.vimrc.

-- 
George L. Yermulnik
[YZ-RIPE]