RE: Vim 7.2 on CentOS 6 - set ruler has no effect

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From: Tony Mechelynck [antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 12:53 PM
To: Ismail, Mohd F.
Cc: vim_use@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Vim 7.2 on CentOS 6 - set ruler has no effect

On 02/10/11 18:24, Ismail, Mohd F. wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> When I type that command in vim window, it gives me nothing. It just returns the cursor position to its initial position. Am I supposed to type it some where else?

You should be using Vim in Normal mode, then type

:echo has('cmdline_info')

followed by hitting Enter. A 0 (zero, meaning "no") or a 1 (one, meaning
"yes") should appear at bottom left of your Vim screen. Anything you
type will make it disappear again.

>
> Hi Ben Fritz,
>
> I looked into the vimrc and there is no statusline keyword anywhere in the file. I didn't customize my vi and just use what ever was set up by CentOS people.

Aha! Is it ~/.vimrc or $VIM/vimrc or /etc/vimrc or something else? If
anything but the first of these, Vim will be in 'compatible' mode by
default. What do you see at the bottom of the screen if (in Normal mode)
you type

:verbose set ruler?

(with the question mark), followed by hitting the Enter key?

>
> --Farid

Oh, and BTW, the custom of these lists is to reply below, not above, the
text you're replying to.

Best regards,
Tony.
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Hi Tony,

I tried both with /etc/vimrc and ~/.vimrc (copying from /etc/vimrc to .vimrc in my home directory), and they both behaved similarly.

When I type :echo has('cmdline_info'), like I said, nothing happens. The cursor just go back to its original position. No 0 or 1 at the bottom left corner. The command :echo has ('cmdline_info') remains there until I go into insert mode or type some other command.

When I type :verbose set ruler?, I got, at the bottom left corner, in red background E519: Option not supported: ruler?

Below is the .vimrc file if it is of any help:

============================Begin .vimrc===============================

if v:lang =~ "utf8$" || v:lang =~ "UTF-8$"
set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
endif

set nocompatible " Use Vim defaults (much better!)
set bs=indent,eol,start " allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
"set ai " always set autoindenting on
"set backup " keep a backup file
set viminfo='20,\"50 " read/write a .viminfo file, don't store more
" than 50 lines of registers
set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler " show the cursor position all the time
set showcmd
set number

" Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands
if has("autocmd")
augroup redhat
autocmd!
" In text files, always limit the width of text to 78 characters
autocmd BufRead *.txt set tw=78
" When editing a file, always jump to the last cursor position
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if line("'\"") > 0 && line ("'\"") <= line("$") |
\ exe "normal! g'\"" |
\ endif
" don't write swapfile on most commonly used directories for NFS mounts or USB sticks
autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPre /media/*,/mnt/* set directory=~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp
" start with spec file template
autocmd BufNewFile *.spec 0r /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/template.spec
augroup END
endif

if has("cscope") && filereadable("/usr/bin/cscope")
set csprg=/usr/bin/cscope
set csto=0
set cst
set nocsverb
" add any database in current directory
if filereadable("cscope.out")
cs add cscope.out
" else add database pointed to by environment
elseif $CSCOPE_DB != ""
cs add $CSCOPE_DB
endif
set csverb
endif

" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
syntax on
set hlsearch
endif

filetype plugin on

if &term=="xterm"
set t_Co=8
set t_Sb=?[4%dm
set t_Sf=?[3%dm
endif

" Don't wake up system with blinking cursor:
" http://www.linuxpowertop.org/known.php
let &guicursor = &guicursor . ",a:blinkon0"

=====================End .vimrc=====================================

--Farid

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