vim - enabling colour

[freeups]

Hey everyone.

I have two servers. The first is FC3. It has all my websites on it. When I ssh into it to configure files I have the colored text and the ruler feature in VI.

I recently did a clean install of FC4. For whatever reason I seem to have nothing but problems with it. It does not recognize my sound card that FC3 had no problem with. Anyway thats another post.

When I ssh into FC4 i get the plain VI. I have confirmed that VIM is installed. I read on the forum that you do the following to get more vi options

:set [option]

When I do this on my FC3 I get the following

:set
--- Options ---
backspace=2 helplang=en scroll=11 viminfo='20,"50
cscopetag history=50 syntax=apache t_Sb=^[[4%dm
cscopeverbose hlsearch ttyfast t_Sf=^[[3%dm
filetype=apache ruler ttymouse=xterm
cscopeprg=/usr/bin/cscope
fileencoding=utf-8
fileencodings=utf-8,latin1

When I go to FC4 and do the same thing I get

:set
--- Options ---
backspace=2 modified ttyfast
history=50 scroll=11
fileencoding=utf-8
fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1

Do I not have VIM installed correct or something as FC4 has way less options. Do I need to enable something. As far as i am concerned I feel that I have installed the same options in FC4 than in FC3. Do i have to yum install something.

Is FC3 only supported for the next few months. I always like to keep everything updated but it seems wrong to be running FC3 now that FC4 is available. Is FC3 just fine for a server as long as you keep updated with updates.

Thanks.

[huw-l]

you might not have vim-enhanced installed.

[freeups]

Originally Posted by huw-l

you might not have vim-enhanced installed.

Doing

yum search vim

I get

vim-enhanced.i386 1:6.3.071-3 installed
Matched from:
vim-enhanced
A version of the VIM editor which includes recent enhancements.
VIM (Vi 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. The vim-enhanced
package contains a version of VIM with extra, recently introduced
features like Python and Perl interpreters.

Install the vim-enhanced package if you want to use a version of the
VIM editor which includes recently added enhancements like
interpreters for the Python and Perl scripting languages. You will
also need to install the vim-common package.

[huw-l]

I suspect that vi is not aliased to vim. so do

vim /file/to/edit

rather than

vi /file/to/edit