[NBLUG/talk] VIM Question

Troy Arnold troy at zenux.net
Wed Sep 19 11:53:13 PDT 2007


On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:32:19AM -0700, Steve Johnson wrote:
> I use vim, and it seems that ubuntu feisty defaults to old school vi
> behavior, how can I force vi to always act like vim?  I tried "alias
> vi=vim" and it did not do the trick.  Is there a global settings file
> where I can set this?


I think stashing this line in /etc/vim/vimrc.local should do the trick:
set nocompatible

-t



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