Re: [vile] local .vilerc handling

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Paul Fox wrote:

> i haven't tried this in a long time, and maybe i'm just botching
> it, but tracing and stracing make me suspicious:
>
> i have a particular directory of code where i need c-tabstop set
> to '4'.  so i created a local .vilerc file:
>    source /home/pgf/.vilerc
>    set c-tabstop 4
>
> but this local file isn't being read.  strace shows me a call to
> access() which shows it exists, but it's never opened.  the only
> file read is $HOME/.vilerc (which happens with or without the
> local file).
>
> does this work for others?  am i misremembering how this
> should/could work?

if the file's writable by other users, vile won't use it - see the
is_our_dir/is_out_file checks in bind.c's cfg_locate function

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