Friday, November 5, 2010

Re: 7.3 features missing

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, keith.briggs@bt.com wrote:

> I upgraded to 7.3 (on Fedora linux), but now two features (which used
> to work in 7.2 and I liked) don't work :

Distributions often set their own defaults in /etc/vimrc (or similar).
Maybe something changed in the latest packaging. Either way, you can
set these features in your own ~/.vimrc.


> - there is no display of the cursor row and column any more; I have to
> get it with ctrl-g after every move

I think you want:
:set ruler


> - search hits are not highlighted in yellow any more.

and:
:set hlsearch


> Are these intentional changes?

AFAICT, they weren't changed from 7.2 to 7.3 in standard Vim. You'd
have to followup with the Fedora folks.

--
Best,
Ben

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