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Bug 30073

Summary: vim is missing important features (like :split and visual mode)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: keithu <keithu>
Component: vimAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description keithu@parl.clemson.edu 2001-02-28 20:00:47 UTC 
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Ok, it looks like you guys are including a developer release of Vim.  Um,
breaking the editor is fairly unacceptable.  Great features like window
splitting (:split) and visual mode (ctrl-v and shift-v) just plain don't
seem to work.  Will these things be fixed by the release?  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start vi
2. type ":split"
3.	
	

Actual Results:  I get the message: "Sorry, this command is not
implemented"

Expected Results:  I should get a split window.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-02-28 20:14:05 UTC 
:split and friends are not features of the standard vi, therefore they aren't 
in vim-minimal.
Use vim-enhanced and they'll do just what you expect.

A very useful command is "alias vi=vim"
Comment 2 keithu@parl.clemson.edu 2001-02-28 20:24:55 UTC 
Ack!  You've got to be kidding!  Why the change?  Under RH7.0, /bin/vi is a
nice, tiny editor (360K) that includes features like :split and friends.  Now, I
have to use that mammoth /usr/bin/vim at a whopping 1.8M or something
ridiculous?  <sigh>  Not to mention having to remember to install it (apparently
wasn't installed by default on the install I did).  Frankly, that sucks.