Comment 0 for bug 1968912

Ubuntu 22.04

When running vim.tiny it says:

$ vim.tiny
E1187: Failed to source defaults.vim
Press ENTER or type command to continue

This is due to the defaults.vim file not being available. If you just run it as vi

$ vi

this message does not appear.

I discovered this because my .selected-editor was vim.tiny after running crontab -e

$ crontab -e

Select an editor. To change later, run 'select-editor'.
  1. /bin/nano <---- easiest
  2. /usr/bin/vim.tiny
  3. /bin/ed

The defaults.vim file is provided by the package vim-runtime.

I'm unsure what the issue is, if something needs to be in /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny or a /etc/vim/vimrc needs to be provided dpkg claims vimrc is in vim-common, but no file is installed for me from that package, or if vim-runtime needs to be a required package for vim-tiny

$ dpkg -S /etc/vim/vimrc
vim-common: /etc/vim/vimrc
$ ls -al /etc/vim/vimrc
ls: cannot access '/etc/vim/vimrc': No such file or directory

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: vim-tiny 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-1005.5-raspi 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-1005-raspi aarch64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu81
Architecture: arm64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Wed Apr 13 11:56:35 2022
ImageMediaBuild: 20201022
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vim
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-04-09 (4 days ago)