Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 30073
vim is missing important features (like :split and visual mode)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686) 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.
: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"
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.