On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 18:31, howard Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > This may not be the place to ask about this but: I recently had the misery > of trying to work with vim on a Redhat Linux distribution at a university. > By default, apparently (version 7.3) is severely crippled with minus signs > next to almost every feature one can think of -- command line completion, > the ability to format comments -- etc. They call it a ``minimal'' version. > > Redhat's ``enhanced'' version is not - It adds one or two trivial features. > > I tried building a decent vim from src.rpm, but had the usual nightmare: > libraries were the wrong version, files were in the wrong directory, one had > to be root, etc. etc. I tried to build vim from regular source, and laughed > at the vim.org claim that ``building vim is easy''. > > I have never found building a complex binary from source ``easy'' unless one > did it on one's own OS, and had full knowledge of the locations and > requirements that the original author intended -- dispite the claims of > gnu's autoconf etc. > > Any ideas why Redhat wants to convert vim back to the limitations of the old > vi? > > any ideas where to find an rpm package of vim for fedora or linux that is > not severely crippled? > > OK - that is my tirade. Any suggestions? > > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
You need to install "vim" or "vim-full" or some such package. CentOS and Ubuntu do the same thing, it is not big deal. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
