Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 19:26:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vim isn't working as expected Message-ID: <20030503192238.C36781-100000@a3ij25fvy80j.bc.hsia.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <20030503210831.A982@sillyrabbi>
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On Sat, 3 May 2003, William O'Higgins wrote: > I am a new user of FreeBSD migrating from Red Hat Linux. There are a > few differences that I am having trouble with. > > vi - my editor of choice, and it doesn't work in the ways I expect it > to. I am used to vi being aliased to vim (which I have done in FreeBSD) > and having syntax highlighting, arrow keys, and a tell-tale line at the > bottom of the xterm to remind me which mode I'm in, which line and > position, and how much file I'm looking at. All these things are gone in > FreeBSD. Could someone tell me what I'm missing? Thanks. Oops, my bad! I hadn't noticed you said you already had aliased vi to vim until I had already hit send! To enable syntax highlighting enter: :syntax on at the vim/ex command line. For a status line enter: :set showmode To enable these automatically you need to set up a .vimrc file, examples can be found in /usr/local/share/vim and /usr/doc/share/examples/vim Cheers, Viktor
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