Re: Which runtime files for console vim?

On 29/02/12 18:55, howard Schwartz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I successfully installed gvim on a redhat installation, which must run
> in console mode only. It does this fine, and has perhaps double the
> features enabled as the tiny or expanded console vim.
>
> My problem now is how to select the runtime directories and files for
> gvim, running as console vim? With usual ones, I get various error
> messages related to no graphics. If I used the tiny or expanded runtime
> files, I fear they would not contain some useful features (e.g., search,
> cmd, dictionary completion).
>
> Specifically, I have tried to impliment the dictionary and thesaurus
> functions, but they do not seem to work. I have the files, and have set
> the dictionary and thesaurus variables to the correct directories.
>
> However, i only get results when I tried to complete a word, for
> instance `have', within a dictionary file itself. In any other file, I
> get ``pattern not found'' for the same word. And I can not use i_CTRL-X
> i_CTRL-K to generate any popup menu with a list of words. Do these
> popups require graphics in linux? They seem to work OK on in my dos box
> under windows.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
>
>

Keep all runtime files (like others said).

If your system runs in console mode only, then there probably is no X
server. Vim would then start faster with the -X command-line switch.

See :help -X

See also the help for any error message you get (by adding after the
:help keyword the error code Exxx where x are digits).

Ctrl-X Ctrl-K is for dictionary search, see :help i_CTRL-X_CTRL-K where
it is also said that the default for the 'dictionary' option (q.v.) is
empty.

Also (as was also mentioned), check near the middle of the output of the
:version command for the location of a "system vimrc file". If that file
(not included in Bram's official set of runtime file, but perhaps in
RedHat's) exists, it will be sourced before your own vimrc:, you may
want to :view it, to see if there is anything in it that you don't like.

Best regards,
Tony.
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