Hi all,

I am used to work on RHEL4es. Recently i hv installed ubuntu8.1. I use vi editor. My problem is vi shows line numbers and colum numbers in RHEL4.0 but i am unable to see line and column numbers in ubutu vi. How to modify vi in ubuntu8.1 to show rows and columns.

:set number

apt-get install vim (maybe you need the full vim instead of vi)?

echo "set number" >> ~/.virc

echo "set number" >> ~/.vimrc

note the 'm'

vi uses ~/.vimrc as well as vim?

Hello everybody...

:set number command will number the each row... but my question is in vi of RHEL4 bottom right corner always shows the the cursor position(at what line and which row). As the cursor moves the will also keep changing.... but this is not appearing in vi of ubuntu8.1

Hello everybody...

:set number command will number the each row... but my question is in vi of RHEL4 bottom right corner always shows the the cursor position(at what line and which row). As the cursor moves the will also keep changing.... but this is not appearing in vi of ubuntu8.1

:set ruler

These can be found on Google, I am sure.

Ubuntu actually ships with a castrated version of vim called vim-tiny. You want to install the full version of vim to get the functionality you're generally used to. There are a lot of general options you could set in your .vimrc file that would make your experience more familiar and more what you are used to. I'm a fan of setting the following:

Turn on the ruler and highlighting, off wordwrapping, visualbell, and vi compatibility.
set ruler
set hls
set nowrap
set novisualbell
set nocompatible

Default to ignoring case and don't butcher existing stuff
set ignorecase
set preservecase

Make backups but don't leave them scattered all over system.
set backup
set backupdir=~/.vim/backups

Turn on line numbers, autoindent, and don't use real tabs use spaces.
set number
set autoindent
set expandtabs

Turn on syntax highlighting
syntax on

ymmv based on what you do with the editor specifically.

Run "apt-get install vim-full" to fix most of your basic problems (without the need for a .vimrc even).

Most people type vi, but that's typically a link to another "version" of vi like vim-tiny, vim-full, or vile (shudder). It's nice that you can use (g)vim in windows and x too.

Thank you alot rveaver. Can you please explain me what happens when we use the command apt-get install <package>? In rhel4 we download the file and then install, we can c the file. Here with apt-get command can we see the downloaded file(to use in future that we dont need to download again)?