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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by sbarre on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:50AM (#12817279)
You'd be surprised. Some corporate environments keep machines pretty locked down in terms of what you can change in the System Preferences, or install on your own.
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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by efvxcgci on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:09PM (#12817508)
Adding a .vimrc file doesn't require administrator privileges on either Linux or macOS, nor does it require changing anything in System Preferences.

If for some reason you "can't" add a .vimrc file to a user account then you probably shouldn't be manually logging into that user account.

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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by j2bax on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:03PM (#12817442)
Can you request the change from your IT department?
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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by lostlogin on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:27PM (#12817719)
Just fill in the ticket, call to follow it up, explain what you want again, re open the closed ticket, open the ticket again, do a few ritualistic incantations and you'll get there.
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