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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000..75f433a --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Vim for Debian +--------------- + +1. The current Debian Vim scripts policy can be found in the vim-doc package + under /usr/share/doc/vim-common and + <http://pkg-vim.alioth.debian.org/vim-policy.html/>. + +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 <zack@debian.org> Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:59:41 -0400 + +MzScheme Vim variant +-------------------- + +As requested by the current MzScheme maintainer (Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>), +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 <jamessan@debian.org> Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:48:25 -0400 + +Modeline support disabled by default +------------------------------------ + +Modelines have historically been a source of security/resource vulnerabilities +and are therefore disabled by default in $VIMRUNTIME/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 (and in the vim-scripts package) may +also be of interest as it provides a way to whitelist exactly which options +may be set from a modeline. + + -- James Vega <jamessan@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 03:11:51 -0400 |