On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> David Odin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I noticed with vim -- it was configured without syntax/color
> > > highlighting capabilities in the RPM. I've had to download it and
> > > configure it by hand. Or is there something that I don't know about
> > > with the RPM? Maybe a way to specify that I want syntax/color
> > > highlighting turned on?
> >
> > if you have vim-minimal and vim-enhanced installed, when you type vi at
> > the prompt, you use vim-minimal, which is... minimal
> > use "vim" instead, or uninstall vim-minimal.
>
> We've been flamed in past because our default vi did more than the
> historical one (syntax highlight and the like).
> So we've choosen that vim-minimal should really be minimal.
>
> Now, we can :
> - either use update-alternative so that vim-enhanced provides /bin/vi too
> - or make vim-enhanced obsoltes vim-minimal so that if one want to install
> both, he only gets the full enhanced version.
But what's happening is that if both are installed (minimal and enhanced)
then you get the minimal one - which doesn't include syntax highlighting.
You have to remove vim-minimal in order to get syntax highlighting.
Thanks,
-Steven
