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What distribution are you using? It seems as when you open up vim, you are using the original vim modes; You most likely need to install the vim-common and vim-enhanced packages, along with the dependencies that normally come with it.
If you are using ubuntu, enter the following on the command line:
Can you post what is outputted when you ran the above command? I know it sounds silly, but when I was at my friends house a while back, he had a similar problem, and he needed to install more packages than he realized.
I didn't run it because it was already installed, but my installed vim packages are these:
Code:
~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep vim
vim install
vim-common install
vim-doc install
vim-gnome install
vim-gui-common install
vim-runtime install
vim-tiny install
out of possible:
Code:
~$ apt-cache search vim | grep vim
vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
vim-common - Vi IMproved - Common files
vim-dbg - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor (debugging symbols)
vim-doc - Vi IMproved - HTML documentation
vim-gnome - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with GNOME2 GUI
vim-gui-common - Vi IMproved - Common GUI files
vim-runtime - Vi IMproved - Runtime files
vim-tiny - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - compact version
jvim-canna - Japanized VIM (Canna version)
jvim-doc - Documentation for jvim (Japanized VIM)
libtext-vimcolor-perl - syntax color text in HTML or XML using Vim
libvi-quickfix-perl - Perl support for vim's QuickFix mode
vim-addon-manager - manager of addons for the Vim editor
vim-gtk - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with GTK2 GUI
vim-latexsuite - view, edit and compile LaTeX documents from within Vim
vim-nox - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
vim-rails - plugins for vim to allow easier editing of Rails Applications
vim-scripts - plugins for vim, adding bells and whistles
vim-syntax-gtk - Syntax files to highlight GTK+ keywords in vim
vim-vimoutliner - script for building an outline editor on top of Vim
vimhelp-de - Vi IMproved - Documentation files (German translation)
vim-puppet - Vim syntax highlighting for puppet manifests
But I don't think this is the problem, but hey, maybe it is
I'm about to leave for work dude, but for the hell of it, try removing vim-tiny for the time being, along with messing with the other packages. I know it's a simple fix, but I don't time until now plus 12-13 hours.....
...even if the problem wasn't vim-tiny, but your suggestion pointed me in the right direction. The problem was the binary vim.gnome which /usr/bin/vim linked to. When I started /usr/bin/vim.basic, then problem disappeared right away
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