thgr wrote: > Hi vim users, > > I want to use all the great features of vim version 7 for redhat > enterprise linux 4 (comes with vim 6.3) - so i downloaded the sources > and compiled. > > But now I am missing some great features - can anybody tell me how > they can be invoked (or tell me where I can find a neat .rpm that has > all the stuff)? > > * command completion in command mode: doesn't work because I get for > example ':set ignorec^I' (vim writes ^I instead of completing to ':set > ignorecase' > > * I can't browse the file system: e.g. ':e.' gives vim message: '"." > is a directory' which is completely true but not what I wanted to > achieve ... > > Thank you very much for your help! > (get, uncompress, and untar the vim72 archive. You may want to do all the patches, too) configure --with-features=huge make su ... make install exit
One last thing -- check your path to insure that you're getting the vim you just compiled rather than the system one. Regards, Chip Campbell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
