Re: Redhat Linux has crippled Vim

I am running centos 5.7.

Here is what I have with details of how I got it just using the repo rpms.  I did have to alias vim-->vimx.   Hope this helps.

ops@ida:~:114# yum list | grep vim
vim-X11.i386                             2:7.0.109-7.el5               installed
vim-common.i386                          2:7.0.109-7.el5               installed
vim-enhanced.i386                        2:7.0.109-7.el5               installed
vim-minimal.i386                         2:7.0.109-7.el5               installed
ops@ida:~:115# whereis vimx
vimx: /usr/bin/vimx
ops@ida:~:116# file /usr/bin/vim
vim*      vimdiff@  vimtutor* vimx@    
ops@ida:~:116# file /usr/bin/vimx
/usr/bin/vimx: symbolic link to `gvim'
ops@ida:~:117# whereis gvim
gvim: /usr/bin/gvim /usr/share/man/man1/gvim.1.gz
ops@ida:~:118$ vimx --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Mar  5 2011 21:34:01)
Included patches: 1, 3-4, 7-9, 11, 13-17, 19-26, 29-31, 34-44, 47, 50-56, 58-64, 66-73, 75, 77-92, 94-107, 109, 202, 234-237
Modified by <bugzilla@redhat.com>
Compiled by <bugzilla@redhat.com>
Huge version with GTK2 GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments
+cryptv +cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +diff +digraphs +dnd -ebcdic
+emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path
+folding -footer +fork() +gettext -hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist
 +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +menu
+mksession +modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape +mouse_dec +mouse_gpm
-mouse_jsbterm +mouse_netterm +mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme
-netbeans_intg -osfiletype +path_extra +perl +postscript +printer +profile
+python +quickfix +reltime +rightleft -ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent
-sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static
-tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title +toolbar
+user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace
+wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup +X11 -xfontset +xim +xsmp_interact
+xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
   system vimrc file: "/etc/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "/etc/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK  -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12     -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2    -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE  -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm  -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE  -I/usr/include/python2.4 -pthread  
Linking: gcc -L/lib    -Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE   -L/usr/local/lib -o vim   -L/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0   -lXt -lncurses  -lselinux  -lacl -lgpm   -Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE  -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE -lperl -lresolv -lutil -lc -L/usr/lib/python2.4/config -lpython2.4 -lutil -lm -Xlinker -export-dynamic

 . o . . . o o o o