On 09/12/08 05:19, Aaron Davies wrote: > vim 6.2.263 on SuSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.4, no ~/.vimrc, just the > suse default /etc/vimrc > > y/yy/Y do nothing at all (d, x, etc. all work fine) > > ideas?
6.2 is obsolete, and has long been so (since then, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.1 have all come and gone; the latest version is ATM 7.2.068). SuSE 9.4 is also obsolete (the current version is 11.0, and 11.1 will probably be released before the end of the year -- which means the end of the month by now, of course). I recommend to compile your own Vim 7.2.068, see http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm -- it shouldn't be difficult, and it might cure your problem, because /etc/vimrc is not the default location for the system vimrc. You may also have spurious mappings (even in /etc/vimrc, which is a SuSE script, not a vim.org script). Try finding them out with :map y :map Y With Vim 7 it would be easier: ":verbose map y" would tell you where the mappings were defined, the way it already does in Vim 6 for the ":set" command. Also, you may want to add a .vimrc to your $HOME directory. For starters, I recommend the following: " Vim configuration file " For menus in English rather than in locale language, " replace if 0 by if 1 below. if 0 if has('multi_lang') if has('unix') language messages C else language messages en endif endif endif " the following adds a number of useful settings runtime vimrc_example.vim " add additional user customizations below this line Best regards, Tony. -- The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best". -- H. Allen Smith --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
