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 > > b&w) 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
