VI Editor on RedHat Enterprise Edition

dhirajsharma · 11-12-2007, 11:21 AM

I am using vi RedHat Enterprise. Somehow, the "set ruler" option is not displaying the ruler line, but it also does not give an error message when I make the setting. ":set" does not list "ruler" as one of the settings.

BTW, the program name is "vi" in the default installation. I tried to alias vim to vi, but get the same result.

On FC6 the above problem is not there. Any insight will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

DKS

malcor · 11-12-2007, 08:02 PM

Vim is the default editor on RHEL, but it isn't fully installed:

Make sure you have:
vim-minimal
vim-common

As well as:
vim-enhanced

In this way I do see ":set ruler" as one of the options.

Hope that helps.

:-Dan

dhirajsharma · 11-12-2007, 08:18 PM

Thanks, Dan. That is exactly what I was looking for. -- DKS