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I understand the old "vi" package was in fact "vim", and after the changes, it's now reverted back to "vi", so to use "vim" I need to intall "vim".
I've done this, but vim won't pick up my settings file! I have renamed it from ~/.exrc. to ~/.vimrc but it won't work Am I misunderstanding something here? why can't vim pick up any settings?
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i don't know for sure, but maybe vim can't read some of the .exrc commands (or syntax).
try creating a blank .vimrc and add the settings to that file.
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I understand the old "vi" package was in fact "vim", and after the changes, it's now reverted back to "vi", so to use "vim" I need to intall "vim".
Strictly speaking, yes, but lest someone else should misinterpret this, the vi package was a stripped-down version of the vim which has always been in the repos. The vi package has been changed to point to a different vi clone, ex/vi. The vi package never had all the features that vim has.
With regard to your settings, please post your config, and tell us how you are invoking vim.
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yes, this is the mess, first highlighting, indenting, now mouse
I rewriting and adding new lines into .vimrc and always when I start vim I find something what don't work.
I wonna just work
Yeah. So far I have had to add:
syntax on
set mouse=r
since the vim upgrade to get the same functionality I had pre upgrade.
At least vim has great documentation. Each time I have needed to fix something I found it fairly quickly in the help system.
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I'm invoking vim with the command 'vim'
I've stripped everything out of my config file except for:
set number
just dunt work
Last edited by soylent_green_is_hamster (2009-09-20 14:44:44)
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This is something of a shot in the dark, but can you post the output of "vim --version"?
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I'm getting really confused by this!!
carl@interstat ~ $ which vim
/usr/bin/vim
carl@interstat ~ $ ll /usr/bin/vim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-08-14 06:27 /usr/bin/vim -> vim-normal
running 'vim-normal' loads vim as expected (and picks up my config)
why doesn't running "vim" work????
carl@interstat ~ $ vim-normal --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Aug 14 2009 05:27:05)
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not a fix, but till you find the solution to it, create an alias vim for vim-normal.
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