Orna Agmon wrote: > Hi All, > > My system was recently updated from Red Hat Enterprize 3 to RHE4, this > update including an updated of vim, from 6.1.320 to 6.3.82. > > Now, with the new vim, many nice features were lost: > > *syntax highlighting > *automatically viewing gzip compressed files > *directory browsing > *remembering the last search string > *remembering, for each file, the line I was at.
Make sure you start vim as vim and not vi, when started as vi it starts in a vi compatible mode which makes for hours of fun. (ok, a few seconds only, after which you do <ESC>:q) Another poster said the defaults for vim changed between RHE3 and 4 you might want to find an existing install of RHE3 and revive the config from it to get full benefits of the old config. Alternatively you can find the commands for the various features and add them to your very own .vimrc First you can do: set nocompatible > *syntax highlighting syntax on > *automatically viewing gzip compressed files In my debian vim there is a gzip plugin, It's a bit too large for the mailing list, you can find the package source at http://packages.debian.org/testing/editors/vim-runtime > *remembering the last search string set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history > *remembering, for each file, the line I was at. set viminfo='20,\"50 " read/write a .viminfo file, don't store more " than 50 lines of registers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]