Color code my Vi Editor
Hi, I tried to look up information online on this but wasn't able to find anything that worked. I used Vi at my old job and loved the editing features it provided. I've moved to a new place now and I am the only developer here. I logged into a SunOS Unix box (bash shell) and while things work my vi editor looks very bland (no colors schemes and bw) which makes reading and writing code difficult. When I looked up info I found that I have to put the color coding information into my .vimrc file in my home directory. I am in a corporation and under my home /home/myName I don't have a .vimrc file. I found a sample one online that I copied but it didn't have any effect on my vi editor. I also tried syntax on commands by vi said it wasn't recognized by vi. Can anyone please help make my vi editor colorful? Many thanks! -- You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Color code my Vi Editor
Can anyone please help make my vi editor colorful? Hi, it is a big difference between 'vi' and 'vim'. You work with plain 'vi' as being on solaris, probably. So the right answer should be 'install vim'. Try http://sunfreeware.com/ After vim installation, I recommend: :help coloring And if it did not help your problem, you may ask at v...@vim.org Regards, Milan Vancura -- You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Color code my Vi Editor
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, duffman wrote: Hi, I tried to look up information online on this but wasn't able to find anything that worked. I used Vi at my old job and loved the editing features it provided. I've moved to a new place now and I am the only developer here. I logged into a SunOS Unix box (bash shell) and while things work my vi editor looks very bland (no colors schemes and bw) which makes reading and writing code difficult. When I looked up info I found that I have to put the color coding information into my .vimrc file in my home directory. I am in a corporation and under my home /home/myName I don't have a .vimrc file. I found a sample one online that I copied but it didn't have any effect on my vi editor. I also tried syntax on commands by vi said it wasn't recognized by vi. Can anyone please help make my vi editor colorful? Many thanks! On a Solaris box, it's relatively unlikely that `vi' runs vim. You can check by doing :version - that will either fail entirely (meaning you're not running vim) or show a bunch of information including -syntax (meaning you are using a vim binary, but that syntax highlighting support wasn't compiled in). Either way, the solution will be to find a better package or compile vim from source. ~Matt -- You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Color code my Vi Editor
On 2010-07-21, duffman wrote: Hi, I tried to look up information online on this but wasn't able to find anything that worked. I used Vi at my old job and loved the editing features it provided. I've moved to a new place now and I am the only developer here. I logged into a SunOS Unix box (bash shell) and while things work my vi editor looks very bland (no colors schemes and bw) which makes reading and writing code difficult. When I looked up info I found that I have to put the color coding information into my .vimrc file in my home directory. I am in a corporation and under my home /home/myName I don't have a .vimrc file. I found a sample one online that I copied but it didn't have any effect on my vi editor. I also tried syntax on commands by vi said it wasn't recognized by vi. Can anyone please help make my vi editor colorful? The SunOS vi is not Vim, so it does not read ~/.vimrc. Instead, it looks for configuration information in ~/.exrc. I don't think the SunOS vi supports color. (I'll have access to a SunOS machine later today but I don't at the moment.) If you want a colorful vi, you'll have to install some other vi, such as Vim. You can either ask your system administrator to do this for you, or you can build your own Vim, install it in ~/bin, and add ~/bin to your PATH. The best way to get the Vim source these days is to use Mercurial, but you probably don't have Mercurial on that SunOS system, either, so you would have to install that as well. Installing programs such as Mercurial and Vim is not difficult. Let us know if it is feasible for you to do that and we can give you whatever further instructions you might need. Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Color code my Vi Editor
Many thanks for your replies! I am working at a big corporation and the IT-powers that be have access to most root level modifications. I have read/write permissions on my home directory (/home/myName). Could I install the vim editor under my directory? If so, any pointers on what to do? Once downloaded is there a script I can run that'd perform the installation? Is this what I should download? http://www.vim.org/download.php#unix Thanks again for your help. On Jul 21, 11:25 am, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2010-07-21, duffman wrote: Hi, I tried to look up information online on this but wasn't able to find anything that worked. I used Vi at my old job and loved the editing features it provided. I've moved to a new place now and I am the only developer here. I logged into a SunOS Unix box (bash shell) and while things work my vi editor looks very bland (no colors schemes and bw) which makes reading and writing code difficult. When I looked up info I found that I have to put the color coding information into my .vimrc file in my home directory. I am in a corporation and under my home /home/myName I don't have a .vimrc file. I found a sample one online that I copied but it didn't have any effect on my vi editor. I also tried syntax on commands by vi said it wasn't recognized by vi. Can anyone please help make my vi editor colorful? The SunOS vi is not Vim, so it does not read ~/.vimrc. Instead, it looks for configuration information in ~/.exrc. I don't think the SunOS vi supports color. (I'll have access to a SunOS machine later today but I don't at the moment.) If you want a colorful vi, you'll have to install some other vi, such as Vim. You can either ask your system administrator to do this for you, or you can build your own Vim, install it in ~/bin, and add ~/bin to your PATH. The best way to get the Vim source these days is to use Mercurial, but you probably don't have Mercurial on that SunOS system, either, so you would have to install that as well. Installing programs such as Mercurial and Vim is not difficult. Let us know if it is feasible for you to do that and we can give you whatever further instructions you might need. Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Color code my Vi Editor
On Jul 21, 1:17 pm, duffman samarthsangh...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks for your replies! I am working at a big corporation and the IT-powers that be have access to most root level modifications. I have read/write permissions on my home directory (/home/myName). Could I install the vim editor under my directory? If so, any pointers on what to do? Once downloaded is there a script I can run that'd perform the installation? Is this what I should download?http://www.vim.org/download.php#unix Thanks again for your help. Please bottom-post to this list. Yes, it is perfectly possible to compile and run Vim from your home directory, if you have the space available for it (you probably do). The link you give will work, but it can be easier to get a fully up-to- date version, with all bugfixes, using the Mercurial repository. See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_the_Vim_source_with_Mercurial You will then need to compile the source code which you have downloaded. See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Building_Vim After compiling the source code, you should be able to just run Vim from the location in which it resides. Setting up aliases will probably be helpful for this. Before trying any of this, it may behoove you to see if 'vim' is already installed. Instead of 'vi file.blah' type 'vim file.blah' and see if it works. Or just type 'which vim' to see if it finds anything. Of course, another option is to as the IT-powers to upgrade your Vim version. Or, install Vim on your normal workstation...it runs great on most operating systems out there. You can even get a GUI-enabled Vim (gvim) that way. See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Download You did not specify, did you log onto this SunOS station directly, or via a remote terminal like PuTTY? There are some tricks you may need to do to get color working properly in this situation, even after you get a real Vim running. -- You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Color code my Vi Editor
On 21/07/10 20:35, Dominique Pellé wrote: duffman wrote: Many thanks for your replies! I am working at a big corporation and the IT-powers that be have access to most root level modifications. I have read/write permissions on my home directory (/home/myName). Could I install the vim editor under my directory? If so, any pointers on what to do? Once downloaded is there a script I can run that'd perform the installation? Is this what I should download? http://www.vim.org/download.php#unix Thanks again for your help. Hi You can certainly install vim without root access. I'm in the same exact same situation at work. Here is how you can install Vim from sources: # Create a directory where to put your installed software $ mkdir ~/opt # Create a directory where to put source codes which you download $ mkdir ~/sb $ cd ~/sb # Download sources. I recommend using Mercurial, which you may # have to install if not available, again, no need to be root. $ hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim $ cd vim # Configure Vim. You need to pass the --prefix option since # you don't have root access (or else it would try to install Vim # in /usr/local/... where you don't have permission) $ ./configure --with-features=huge --prefix=$HOME/opt # Compile Vim $ make # Install Vim (this will install Vim files into $HOME/opt/...) $ make install Then edit your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.cshrc, depending on your shell) to add $HOME/opt/bin into your PATH. That's it. You may try ./configure --help to see what other options are available when running the configure script. The way to install Vim from sources is the same as for most other softwares on Unix: Another solution is to ask root to install Vim. A good Unix administrator should always install Vim :-) PS1: please bottom post when posting to this mailing list PS2: this question was more suitable for the vim_use mailing list (vim_dev is for the development of Vim). -- Dominique See also: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_the_Vim_source_with_Mercurial http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm and in order to install Vim into subdirectories of $HOME/opt/ as above by using the method described in compunix.htm you'll need to include the following as part of the configuration-setting script to be sourced: export CONF_ARGS=--prefix=$HOME/opt and make sure (with this example) that $HOME/opt/bin exists and is in your $PATH. If Dominique hadn't recommended something else, I might have just suggested --prefix=$HOME which would have put: the Vim executable at $HOME/bin/vim the runtime files at $HOME/share/vim/vim72 (Vim 7.2) or at $HOME/share/vim/vim73b (Vim 7.3b) and searched user scripts under $HOME/share/vim/vimfiles/ and under $HOME/.vim/ With $HOME/opt intead, $HOME/.vim stays there and all the rest move to $HOME/opt/bin/ and to subdirs of $HOME/opt/share/. Note that you can only set one $CONF_ARGS variable of course; if you have several arguments to set by means of it, put them space-separated into a single value. (For some arguments, as shown in my conpunix.htm HowTo page, there are separate environment variables). Best regards, Tony. -- When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him -- that's where the money is. -- Robespierre -- You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
