It works fine. I use it on my 770. You just have to reboot for the .profile to take effect. I can start an xterm, type 'vim', and there it is.
Thanks for mentioning this! I had been using the 'sh --login' method to use /home/user/.profile. I did not realized that this would work after a reboot. It now finds vim in my path...
Unfortunately, my aliases are not available unless I use the 'sh --login' method. Is there something I need to do differently to make these available? Example:
alias ll='ls -l'
I've created an entry in the wiki on using xterm that tries to cover what needs to be done to change the .profile. As you'll see in my examples I favour keeping things simple.
Hey, speaking of VIM... I got it installed, but I couldn't get the carriage return to work. Instead, it inserted a capital "M" and maybe a couple of other garbage characters. I couldn't find a way to remap it with stty. It made it pretty hard to edit any files longer than one line. Anyone have better luck? I installed vim using the gainroot method.
It's probably just a bad habit many of us have picked up. Use o rather than i and you won't have this problem.
Maybe someone could add this to the wiki, perhaps with a link to a vi/vim cheat sheet - there are loads out there.
Maybe this is a stupid question but I managed to get Vim working whenever I run Xterminal. That's all good but if I then use sudo gainroot to get root access it no longer works. Where do I need to add those variables so Vim still works? Yes, I am a Linux newbie
Anyone have better luck? I installed vim using the gainroot method.