vim72 for redhat enterprise 4

[Charles E Campbell Jr]

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



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[thgr-2]

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!

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[Gary Johnson-4]

On 2009-11-11, 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!

The default settings for configure should give you almost all the
features of vim, so you shouldn't need to do any more than

    ./configure
    make
    make install

unless you want something special like integration with perl, python
or cscope, for example.

Make sure your vim is running in 'nocompatible' mode.  Otherwise, it
will behave pretty much like vi.  One way to ensure this is to have
a file named .vimrc in your home directory.  You can execute

    :set compatible?

to check the state of that variable.

If that doesn't help, then execute these two commands and post the
results here.

    :verbose
    :scriptnames

That will tell us the features that your vim actually contains and
whether it is reading the configuration files properly.

As for rpm, I don't use it, but if you read the rpm man page you
should find an option for listing available packages.  That will
give you the name of the vim package, which is something like
vim-enhanced.  The package named just vi or vim will install the
tiny version of vim that has very few features.  You may need to
install an rpm named something like vim-runtime as well to get all
the runtime files, such as the ones that tell vim how to display a
directory.

Regards,
Gary



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[Chris Jones-44]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:52:05AM EST, thgr wrote:

[..]

> * 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 ...

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1075

CJ

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[pansz]

thgr 写道:
> 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)?

1. do you have your own ~/.vimrc ? if you are using the system wide
version it usually at /etc, while the compiled vim usually search it at
/usr/local/share/vim/vim72

2. type :version within your vim and give the output, it helps to
identify your problem.


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[thgr-2]

Thank you very much for your help! Sorry for the long delay in my
answer - i was very busy at work.

I did not have my own .vimrc file: after copying my standard gvimrc
the tab completion worked.

But the ":e ." to browse the file system still does not work. Tried to
install netrw.vim but that resulted in the error
"E492: Not an editor command: UseVimball" when :so % sourcing the .vim
file.

But on the M$ windows machines and on the 6.3 versions on linux ":e ."
works out of the box - am I missing here something too?

Again lots of thanks for your advice!

On Nov 12, 6:45 am, pansz <panshi...@...> wrote:

> thgr写道:
>
> > 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)?
>
> 1. do you have your own ~/.vimrc ? if you are using the system wide
> version it usually at /etc, while the compiled vim usually search it at
> /usr/local/share/vim/vim72
>
> 2. type :version within your vim and give the output, it helps to
> identify your problem.

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[Tony Mechelynck-2]

On 26/11/09 09:11, thgr wrote:

>
> Thank you very much for your help! Sorry for the long delay in my
> answer - i was very busy at work.
>
> I did not have my own .vimrc file: after copying my standard gvimrc
> the tab completion worked.
>
> But the ":e ." to browse the file system still does not work. Tried to
> install netrw.vim but that resulted in the error
> "E492: Not an editor command: UseVimball" when :so % sourcing the .vim
> file.
>
> But on the M$ windows machines and on the 6.3 versions on linux ":e ."
> works out of the box - am I missing here something too?
>
> Again lots of thanks for your advice!

1. You may want to read my "Compiling HowTo pages":
   - for Unix/Linux:
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm
   - for Windows: http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compile.htm

The Unix/Linux version includes an example set of "configure arguments"
which I set by means of environment variables, so they'll stick even if
make decides to re-run configure (e.g. because a change in
src/auto/configure forces it to rebuild the Makefile). It is what I use:
you'll want to change (as a minimum) the "compiled by" setting.

Both versions mention not only how to compile Vim but also
   - where to get the patches (Vim 7.2 has seen 315 "official patches"
as of this writing);
   - where to get the latest runtime files (changes to the runtime files
are only rarely mentioned in the patches).

2. To browse the current directory, it is better to use

        :e ./

where the trailing slash makes it obvious to the netrw plugin that it is
a directory. No need to reinstall netrw unless the version that comes
with Vim isn't good enough for you.

3. Please bottom-post next time (and trim irrelevant text in the quoted
email), see http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/web/vim-information


Best regards,
Tony.
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