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  1. Bug #58002
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 58002

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote : Re: .viminfo is owned by root and mode 0600

I can easily work around this. I submitted this bug because:
a) it took me quite a while, even with help from #vim, to figure out why these things weren't working
b) it's probably not atypical that the first file edited after a fresh install must be edited as root
c) the failures happen quietly
therefore
d) I suspect quite a lot of users have a root-owned .viminfo that prevents vim from operating correctly, whether they're aware of it or not.

I can live with this bug being rejected, but I'd appreciate it if someone put some thought into it first. Maybe there could even be a discussion.