Try ":set nocompatible" and see if that fixes things. Your last 'problem' is actually not a default behavior in vim, although it may have been a default behavior in linux distro X's /etc/vimrc.
* john jonas [Thu, 11 Sep 2003 at 14:55 -0700] <quote> > > --- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 14:59, john jonas wrote: > > > I just did a clean install of RH 9 and vim is > > doing > > > weird stuff and I'm hoping for suggestions. I > > can't > > > get it to do syntax highlighting (:set syn=php) > > and I > > > cant split the screen (:sp file). It just sits > > there > > > when I do either of those and nothing changes. > > Any > > > suggestions? > > > > > > Did you install vim-enhanced as well as vim-minimal? > > > > with the install, I'm not sure. I just accepted the > defaults. However, once I found out that it was doing > weird stuff I did apt-get vim-enhanced and it > installed it. > > Another problem it's having is it doesn't remember the > line I was last on when I quit out of a file. It > always opens a file and puts the cursor on the first > line. > > Thanks. > > John > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list </quote> -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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