Last Updated: February 25, 2016

Per project .vimrc files

Adding this to your .vimrc:

" Per-directory .vimrc files
set exrc
set secure

Now vim will also load a ./.vimrc after $MYVIMRC (~/.vimrc, generally) has loaded. We use this for a few things:

Setting project wide agreed configurations, like indentation.
Adding Rails.vim macros that are specific to this project.
Adding snippets and expansions that are specific to this project.

For example, this is the ./.vimrc file of one project I'm working on: https://gist.github.com/3316523

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Written by Nicolás Sanguinetti

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Be aware that secure doesn't really offer a great deal of protection in the things that someone could do by slipping in a malicious .vimrc into a directory you might pull from the wide world. There is a plugin that prompts you to confirm local rc files the first time and caches a hash of the file so it will prompt again if it is changed by someone else. There's some discussion/alternatives on Stack Overflow also.

over 1 year ago ·