On 08/27/10 10:12, Tintin72 wrote:
Thanks for your responses.

  >  For #1 and #2, you can check the output of

    :version

to make sure it was built with +cmdline_hist

It's ok, +cmdline_hist is mentioned.

For #3, try control+P and control+N to see if they work.

They don't.

I would first try
sudo update-alternatives --config vim

Here's the output:

There is just one « alternative » in the vim's link group : /usr/bin/
vim.gtk.
Nothing to configure.

Okay, you have vim.gtk as your vim (good), built with the option for command-line history (+cmdline_hist...good), and ^N/^P don't work either. The only thing left I can imagine is that for some reason your 'history' option is set to 0 to prevent it from remembering your history. Check

  :set history?

and see what it returns. If it's "0", then some place has instructed vim not to remember history. According to

  :help 'history'

it should default to 20 for Vim and 0 for vi (which may or may not be effected by 'cp' settings). You can use

  :verbose set history?

to see where it was last set, and hopefully override it in your vimrc to something you prefer like

  set history=50

-tim




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