Issues with vim in Redhat

Issues with vim in Redhat

[Martin McCormick]

	I recently am doing some work on a Redhat system and have
discovered some issues with use of vim which is a new and improved
form of vi.  It may be improved, but it drives me nuts and is chatty
to the point of distraction.  If I use the l key to move the cursor, I
don't hear the re-draw of the characters in the line but hear a
running counter of the cursor position.  This might be useful
sometimes, but it normally is better to hear the characters one is
moving over.

	The man page says that the -v flag makes it run more like the
old vi, but it still chatters about everything but what I want it to
chatter about.

	Is there anything else I can do to make vim more vi like?  I
believe it does have several useful features.  I just need it to
behave in a way that doesn't constantly disconnect me from what I am
editing.

	Thanks for any good ideas.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group

Re: Issues with vim in Redhat

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

Martin McCormick, le lun 14 mar 2005 06:32:09 -0600, a dit :
> If I use the l key to move the cursor, I
> don't hear the re-draw of the characters in the line but hear a
> running counter of the cursor position.

This is because vim show the cursor position at the last line of the
display. You can disable that completely by putting 

set noruler

in your .vimrc file. Pressing ctrl-G or g ctrl-G will let you get this
information just once whenever you need it.

Regards,
Samuel

Re: Issues with vim in Redhat

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  The best way I've found is to add the line:

set noruler

to my ~/vimrc file.

If you don't want to create a .vimrc file, type the command:

:set noruler

at the beginning of your vim session to remove the ruler.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:32:09AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	I recently am doing some work on a Redhat system and have
> discovered some issues with use of vim which is a new and improved
> form of vi.  It may be improved, but it drives me nuts and is chatty
> to the point of distraction.  If I use the l key to move the cursor, I
> don't hear the re-draw of the characters in the line but hear a
> running counter of the cursor position.  This might be useful
> sometimes, but it normally is better to hear the characters one is
> moving over.
> 
> 	The man page says that the -v flag makes it run more like the
> old vi, but it still chatters about everything but what I want it to
> chatter about.
> 
> 	Is there anything else I can do to make vim more vi like?  I
> believe it does have several useful features.  I just need it to
> behave in a way that doesn't constantly disconnect me from what I am
> editing.
> 
> 	Thanks for any good ideas.
> 
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
> 
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Re: Issues with vim in Redhat

[Martin McCormick]

Samuel Thibault writes:
>This is because vim show the cursor position at the last line of the
>display. You can disable that completely by putting 
>
>set noruler
>
>in your .vimrc file. Pressing ctrl-G or g ctrl-G will let you get this
>information just once whenever you need it.

	Thank you.  That is exactly what I needed.  In my work, I run
across Linux systems using vim often enough that this is a serious
issue when trying to edit important files.  Vim will let you look at
binary files as well as do lots of other neat things but that ruler
display disrupts any speech output that is looking at incoming
characters, making it easy to be off by a position or to if not
careful.  It's kind of nasty if you happen to knock off the right
brace or delete the wrong line in a configuration file on someone
else's system that they are trusting you to make better, not totally hose.
It's even more important if they are paying you to fix it.  Again,
many thanks.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group