> 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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