> This may not be the place to ask about this but: I recently had the misery
> of trying to work with vim on a Redhat Linux distribution at a university.
> By default, apparently (version 7.3)
Are you talking about 12+ years old Redhat 7.3? Well, please come back
to 21st century and choose a distribution from this century.
> I have never found building a complex binary from source ``easy'' unless one
> did it on one's own OS,
It should be easy, if you know your distribution well enough. For
example: in ubuntu all you need is to do "sudo apt-get build-dep vim"
then everything need to compile vim will be installed and you can
download any version of vim source code (prefered) and compile them,
it is as easy as type: make
For Redhat, you need to find the equivalent command of "sudo apt-get
build-dep vim", and I think there should be one.
> Any ideas why Redhat wants to convert vim back to the limitations of the old
> vi?
It seems that most major "big" distributions tend to ship with
crippled vim by default. It does not hurt for me, because I'll always
compile my own.
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