how do I get vim back to vim defaults?

xenoterracide · 2009-04-30 15:10:15

what's up with vim in this distro? it's majorly screwed up. yes I've installed the vim package and sanely symlinked vi to vim, to get rid of that hastle. but it doesn't use the normal vim defaults, and since I'm not familliar with these settings... maybe someone can help me get vim back to the normal upstream settings?

I don't like that middle click doesn't allow me to paste into vim, I've never had a problem with that, I can't highlight copy out of if either, and right clicking on it in konsole won't bring up the konsole menu.

and when I use / to search, it auto goes to the first word, never had that either. I'm sure there are other issues, but those 2 are driving me nuts...

why does vim behave this way? I though arch wasn't in the habbit of changing things from upstream.

btw, I've been using gentoo since '03/'04 it's not like I don't have a clue here.

Last edited by xenoterracide (2009-04-30 15:10:57)

Xyne · 2009-04-30 15:19:42

The devs are aware of the issue and working on it: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur- … 04118.html

xenoterracide · 2009-04-30 15:40:54

although there is confusion after reading through the thread... it doesn't seem to explictily resolve my issues. which I believe are generally customized vimrc's...

P.S. I would have recommended busybox over nvi, esp since it would probably allow the removal of some other packages...

Mr.Elendig · 2009-04-30 15:54:35

As said on irc: http://www.archlinux.org/news/336 < that is the current status.

xenoterracide · 2009-04-30 15:59:34

how does that actually help me? the current status doesn't help me fix /my/ problem. lets stop talking about where it's at... esp since that's generally vague... I suppose I could spend the next week working on a new vim package... that installs the way the rest of the world expects it... sigh, I guess no one on this forum actually has any clue about the technical details of what's been done, or how to fix it. I'll have to look up the maintainer.... because I've no clue on the vim settings needed to fix my 2 problems... I was hoping someone would already know.

Mr.Elendig · 2009-04-30 16:06:06

Remove the symlink, install the vim package, and it should work more or less as you expect. (except for the horrible /etc/vimrc )

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andre.ramaciotti · 2009-04-30 16:11:16

With the vim package installed, you shouldn't have any problems with the mouse. You'll still have incremental search on, to turn it off, add 'set noincsearch' to your ~/.vimrc .

xenoterracide · 2009-04-30 16:15:42

I do have problems with the mouse, it doesn't behave normally.

xenoterracide · 2009-04-30 16:29:20

set mouse=""

arch sets it to set mouse="a"

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