:set nocompatible?
On 5/25/06, boazg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it was a redhat thing, and due to messing stuff up it was cancelled afaik.
vim shouldnt do to many stuff out of the box. vim7, btw works very well with
a proper vimrc btw.
On 5/25/06, Orna Agmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My system was recently updated from Red Hat Enterprize 3 to RHE4, this
> update including an updated of vim, from 6.1.320 to 6.3.82.
>
> Now, with the new vim, many nice features were lost:
>
> *syntax highlighting
> *automatically viewing gzip compressed files
> *directory browsing
> *remembering the last search string
> *remembering, for each file, the line I was at.
>
> This is just what I found so far. Before that, when I tried vim version
> 7.something (an alpha version), I felt like I was walking even backwards -
> moving with arrows while in insert mode produced ^A, ^B, ^C and ^D, like
> in really old vi versions (before vim).
>
> What is happening? Is there a global switch to get back modernism into my
> life? Alternatively, how can I re-configure all those options on? This
> solution is not as good as a global solution, because every day I find
> another feature which was lost.
>
> I should mention that both my .vimrc and my .virc are empty and have
> always been. My home directory was not changed during the transfer - it is
> NFS mounted.
>
> Thanks,
> Orna.
> --
> Orna Agmon http://ladypine.org/ http://haifux.org/~ladypine/
> ICQ: 348759096
>
>
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