From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011229 Description of problem: Split screen mode, visual (v highlights text as it is moved over for a selection), are not available. an attempt to split returns the error message "E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version" I know I've been meaning to learn emacs, but this is an extreme way to encourage the idea. :) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start vim 2.type ":split<ENTER." 3.observe message. Expected Results: Screen would split into two windows Additional info: GVIM works as expected. Package information from my install: Name : vim-minimal Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 6.0 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 7.13 Build Date: Mon 28 Jan 2002 03:10:38 AM PST Install date: Sun 17 Feb 2002 08:28:51 PM PST Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Group : Applications/Editors Source RPM: vim-6.0-7.13.src.rpm Size : 387820 License: freeware Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : A minimal version of the VIM editor. Description : VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more.
Don't. Emacs is a horribly broken piece of shit (almost as bad as that other Operating System ;) ). vim-minimal is designed to be minimalistic though. You want to install the vim-enhanced package.
Ah, yes, the enhanced as in: [mikeraz@daemon mikeraz]$ rpm -qa | grep vim vim-X11-6.0-7.13 vim-enhanced-6.0-7.13 vim-minimal-6.0-7.13 vim-common-6.0-7.13 [mikeraz@daemon mikeraz]$ Still not working, and sorry to say I didn't report it this way to begin with. To be certain I didn't stomp on myself. Uninstalled all, reinstalled all but the vim-minimal package. As in: `rpm -ivh vim-common-6.0-7.13.i386.rpm vim-enhanced-6.0-7.13.i386.rpm vim-X11-6.0-7.13.i386.rpm` still no split windows, and I really like them. And I can't do gvim while sshed in from work. Emacs a "horribly broken piece of ... Other operating system"? Like debian or Mandrake? No you must mean AmigaDOS. Gad and I just remapped the Caps Lock key to CTRL and bought the O'Reilly book and was wondering "nmeonics? didn't the designers ever hear of nmeonics? Oh, wait! There are a couple. gee thanks." :)
This is odd, I'm using those features every day and I'm not having any problems. (Btw: You may also want to try :vsplit - it's a new feature in 6.0 and I tend to find it even more useful than :split). If you type just vim without a filename, which version is indicated? Does it work if you invoke it as "/usr/bin/vim" rather than just vi or vim? (Just trying to make sure it's not an alias or something messing up).
In the interest of full disclosure: [mikeraz@daemon mikeraz]$ which vim /bin/vim [mikeraz@daemon mikeraz]$ alias ... alias vi='vim' [mikeraz@daemon mikeraz]$ locate vim | grep vim$ | grep bin /usr/bin/rvim /usr/bin/vim /usr/share/doc/vim-common-6.0/syntax/bindzone.vim /usr/share/vim/vim60/syntax/bindzone.vim /usr/X11R6/bin/evim /usr/X11R6/bin/gvim /bin/vim [mikeraz@daemon mikeraz]$ Hmmm, what's this? a /usr/bin/vim and a /bin/vim ?? /usr/bin/vim :: Work as hoped for/expected /bin/vim :: crippled. So is this a bug of vim-minimal not deleting /bin/vim on uninstall? I don't know/care. RH may have an interest. /bin/vim not owned by any package (freshly installed system, sheesh) rpm -qf -p shows that vim-minimal has many /bin entries but vi not vim... worksforme fun: :split :vsplit <CTRL>WW <CTRL>WW :vsplit Thanks for the help.