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2005-12-21
, 18:22
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#12
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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.
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2005-12-21
, 21:18
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@ UK
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#13
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Originally Posted by Dusty
Odd. What OS version have you got?
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.
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2005-12-21
, 22:50
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#14
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Originally Posted by Dusty
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...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.
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'
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2005-12-29
, 17:21
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@ Devon, UK
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#15
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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.
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2005-12-29
, 17:43
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#16
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Originally Posted by Neil McAllister
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.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.
Maybe someone could add this to the wiki, perhaps with a link to a vi/vim cheat sheet - there are loads out there.
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2005-12-29
, 17:47
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#17
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I've updated the wiki and the vim port page with the "proper" vim-level fix for the cursor keys/enter problem:
Put the following in /home/user/.vimrc:
That removes some of vim's backwards-compatibility with the original vi which is causing the problem.
HTH,
Andrew
Last edited by aflegg; 2005-12-30 at 22:29. Reason: .vimrc != .profile (Doh...)
Put the following in /home/user/.vimrc:
Code:
set nocompatible
HTH,
Andrew
Last edited by aflegg; 2005-12-30 at 22:29. Reason: .vimrc != .profile (Doh...)
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2005-12-30
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#18
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I've put it in .vimrc and it did the trick.
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2006-01-02
, 06:34
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@ Philly
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#19
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Yet another method:
ssh into your 770 and cut and paste these lines to permanently modify your .profile:
echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/var/lib/install/usr/lib' >> /home/user/.profile
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/install/usr/bin:/var/lib/install/usr/sbin' >> /home/user/.profile
echo 'set nocompatible' >> /home/user/.vimrc
ssh into your 770 and cut and paste these lines to permanently modify your .profile:
echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/var/lib/install/usr/lib' >> /home/user/.profile
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/install/usr/bin:/var/lib/install/usr/sbin' >> /home/user/.profile
echo 'set nocompatible' >> /home/user/.vimrc
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2006-01-02
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#20
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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 
Setting your .profile and then typing sh --login after starting XTerm fixes this.