<div class="gmail_quote">i, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Rick Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ricks@nerd.com">ricks@nerd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10/07/2011 12:16 PM, Mike Wright wrote:<br>
> On 10/07/2011 12:11 PM, Alan J. Gagne wrote:<br>
>>> Is this something lost from the compiled distribution or is there some<br>
>>> *:set* method that will turn it back on and, if so, would somebody share<br>
>>> the magic formula?<br>
>><br>
>> It does work for me in F14 gnome terminals without doing anything.<br>
>><br>
>> set ruler should work.<br>
><br>
> Thanks Alan,<br>
><br>
> I tried :set ruler but that didn't work<br>
> I tried set ruler in .vimrc and that didn't work either.<br>
><br>
> Got me baffled.<br>
<br>
</div>Make sure you're running /usr/bin/vim and not /bin/vi (as root defaults<br>
to).<br>
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<div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><br><br><br><br>HI<br><br>I generally put that kind of stuff in .vimrc.<br><br>Best<br><br>Marvin<br><br>