Try setting the env variable EXINIT to EXINIT=set exrc I have the line export EXINIT='set exrc redraw wm=8' in my ~/.bashrc and this controls the global behavior of vim. If I unset EXINIT, vim no longer reads .exrc or .vimrc on my system. John On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 19:42, Roger wrote: > Around Tue,Nov 05 2002, at 02:08, Mark C, wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to customise vim and gvim for coding python > > (ie automatically indent when it sees certain python functions, and so > > forth), looking at the src.rpm it, seems that vim has been build with > > the python extensions, but fails to do indenting and such., hence my > > need to customise the .vimrc file or what ever it is called. > > > > I have created a $HOME/.vimrc and just put the following in: > > > > autocmd! > > autocmd BufRead *.py set smartindent \ > > cinwords=if,elif,else,for,while,try,except,finally,def,class > > > > (the above is only on two line in the .vimrc file) > > > > I have tried copying it to $HOME/vim/.vimrc, $HOME/vimrc and $HOME/.vim, > > but it still refuses to read the file (I'm assuming its not reading it > > as the indenting isn't working). > > -- John S. Weber jweber@math.cudenver.edu http://www.users.qwest.net/~weberjohns -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list