VIM for Debian
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1. The current Debian VIM scripts policy can be found in the vim-doc package
under /usr/share/doc/vim-common and
.
2. Before reporting bugs, check if the bug also exists if you run vim
with "vim -u NONE -U NONE". If not, make sure that the "bug" is not
a result of a setting in your ~/.vimrc before reporting it.
-- Stefano Zacchiroli Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:59:41 -0400
UTF-8 Known issues
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There are some known problems with using Vim in an UTF-8 environment.
It's strongly advised to update the encoding variable when using Vim in
UTF-8 environment.
Putting this line in your vimrc do the trick:
set encoding=utf-8
This will prevent some known UTF-8 related problems.
-- Alexis Sukrieh Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:24:32 +0100
More VIM documentation
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VIM upstream changelog and FAQ are quite large and therefore not shipped in the
"vim-common" package. They are available in the "vim-doc" package.
-- Stefano Zacchiroli Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:16:00 +0100
MzScheme Vim variant
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As requested by the current MzScheme maintainer (Ari Pollak ),
a vim-mzscheme variant is not being built. The reasons stated are as follows:
1) MzScheme does not build on many of Debian's supported architectures.
2) The MzScheme package is not versioned based on the library.
3) The MzScheme ABI changes with every upstream version.
-- James Vega Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:48:25 -0400
Modeline support disabled by default
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Modelines have historically been a source of security/resource vulnerabilities
and are therefore disabled by default in /usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/debian.vim.
You can enable them in ~/.vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc with "set modeline".
In order to mimic Vim's default setting (modelines disabled when root, enabled
otherwise), you may instead want to use the following snippet:
if $USER != 'root'
set modeline
else
set nomodeline
endif
The securemodelines script from vim.org may also be of interest as it provides
a way to whitelist exactly which options may be set from a modeline.
-- James Vega Sun, 04 May 2008 03:11:51 -0400