[Lvlug] vim Script Troubles - Silly me!

Brian Reichert rignes at ptd.net
Fri Apr 29 18:43:33 EDT 2005


* Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs-lvlug at lists.manxome.org> [2005-04-29 09:15:52-0400]
> * Brian Reichert <rignes at ptd.net> [2005-04-29T09:13:17]
> > I finally discovered the root cause of my script problems with vim.
> > It seems that every script I tried was having the same problem with
> > not mapping key correctly.  Well, it occurred to me as I was trying to
> > fall asleep that I was in vi compatibility mode.  I just put 'set
> > nocompatible' in my vimrc and now scripts work as they should.
> 
> That's very odd.  Did you previously have "set compat" somewhere?  If
> Vim finds a .vimrc file, it automatically goes into nocp mode, unless
> told to go back to compat.
> 

As far as I can tell "set compat" isn't anywhere.  I haven't checked, but maybe
it's a compile option to make compat mode the default?

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Brian Reichert
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	To stop sinning suddenly.
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