It is a big deal. RedHat has an `enhanced' version (compared to `minimal'), which I did install. The so called `inhanced' had I believe only 2 extra features, and still lacked such simple conveniences as command line history. Apparently, in redhat one only gets a decent set of features compiled, if one installs the graphics version of gvim. For my blind friend, who needs the text version, this is not an option.
On Jan 26, 9:21 am, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, visithttp://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.ilhttp://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
