Re: Redhat Linux has crippled Vim

It is a big deal. RedHat has an `enhanced' version (compared to
`minimal'), which I did install. The so called `inhanced' had I
believe only 2 extra features, and still lacked such simple
conveniences as command line history. Apparently, in redhat one only
gets a decent set of features compiled, if one installs the graphics
version of gvim. For my blind friend, who needs the text version, this
is not an option.

On Jan 26, 9:21 am, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 18:31, howard Schwartz <howard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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) is severely crippled with minus signs
> > next to almost every feature one can think of -- command line completion,
> > the ability to format comments -- etc. They call it a ``minimal'' version.
>
> > Redhat's ``enhanced'' version is not - It adds one or two trivial features.
>
> > I tried building a decent vim from src.rpm, but had the usual nightmare:
> > libraries were the wrong version, files were in the wrong directory, one had
> > to be root, etc. etc. I tried to build vim from regular source, and laughed
> > at the vim.org claim that ``building vim is easy''.
>
> > I have never found building a complex binary from source ``easy'' unless one
> > did it on one's own OS, and had full knowledge of the locations and
> > requirements that the original author intended -- dispite the claims of
> > gnu's autoconf etc.
>
> > Any ideas why Redhat wants to convert vim back to the limitations of the old
> > vi?
>
> > any ideas where to find an rpm package of vim for fedora or linux that is
> > not severely crippled?
>
> > OK - that is my tirade. Any suggestions?
>
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> You need to install "vim" or "vim-full" or some such package. CentOS
> and Ubuntu do the same thing, it is not big deal.
>
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