vi ? howto show cursor position

[Mike Wright]

On 10/07/2011 12:11 PM, Alan J. Gagne wrote:
>> Is this something lost from the compiled distribution or is there some
>> *:set* method that will turn it back on and, if so, would somebody share
>> the magic formula?
>
> It does work for me in F14 gnome terminals without doing anything.
>
> set ruler should work.

Thanks Alan,

I tried :set ruler but that didn't work
I tried set ruler in .vimrc and that didn't work either.

Got me baffled.