vi ? howto show cursor position

[Mike Wright]

Hi all,

In previous fedora releases vi would display the cursor position as "row 
number" "character position" in the bottom right of the display.  In 
f14's release of vi this is no longer true.

I've looked through the command reference and don't see any way to 
restore that behavior.

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?

TIA,
Mike Wright

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:01 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In previous fedora releases vi would display the cursor position as "row 
> number" "character position" in the bottom right of the display.  In 
> f14's release of vi this is no longer true.
>
> I've looked through the command reference and don't see any way to 
> restore that behavior.
>
> 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?
>
> TIA,
> Mike Wright

On my machines both under F14 and F15 the cursor positions are
displayed. vi is really vim. This could be set by a :set command but I
can't find the right one when I looked quickly. On my machine as I said
the correct option is set by default.

You can try :set all to find the option and place it in the .vimrc file
in your home directory.

[Aaron Konstam]

> On my machines both under F14 and F15 the cursor positions are
> displayed. vi is really vim. This could be set by a :set command but I
> can't find the right one when I looked quickly. On my machine as I said
> the correct option is set by default.
>
> You can try :set all to find the option and place it in the .vimrc file
> in your home directory.

:set ruler is the command that does it. When I execute, :set noruler the
curser display goes away.

[Hiisi]

On 7 October 2011 18:01, Mike Wright  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In previous fedora releases vi would display the cursor position as "row
> number" "character position" in the bottom right of the display.  In
> f14's release of vi this is no longer true.
>
> I've looked through the command reference and don't see any way to
> restore that behavior.
>
> 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?
>
> TIA,
> Mike Wright
> --

I thought Vim is installed by default. Do you have it installed? From
my f14 machine:
rpm -qa | grep vim
vim-enhanced-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64
vim-minimal-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64
vim-filesystem-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64
vim-common-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64
HTH

[John Horne]

On 7 October 2011 18:01, Mike Wright  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In previous fedora releases vi would display the cursor position as "row
> number" "character position" in the bottom right of the display.  In
> f14's release of vi this is no longer true.
>
> I've looked through the command reference and don't see any way to
> restore that behavior.
>
> 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?

You need the 'vim-enhanced' package installed, ':set ruler' will then
work. Your PATH should then find '/usr/bin/vim' in preference to
'/bin/vi'.

John.

[John Horne]

On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 19:32 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> On 7 October 2011 18:01, Mike Wright  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In previous fedora releases vi would display the cursor position as "row
> > number" "character position" in the bottom right of the display.  In
> > f14's release of vi this is no longer true.
> >
> > I've looked through the command reference and don't see any way to
> > restore that behavior.
> >
> > 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?
>
> You need the 'vim-enhanced' package installed, ':set ruler' will then
> work. Your PATH should then find '/usr/bin/vim' in preference to
> '/bin/vi'.

I should have clarified that by saying that vim-enhanced also
installs /etc/profile.d/vim.sh which sets up the alias for 'vi=vim'.

John.

[Mike Wright]

On 10/08/2011 11:32 AM, John Horne wrote:
> On 7 October 2011 18:01, Mike Wright  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In previous fedora releases vi would display the cursor position as "row
> > number" "character position" in the bottom right of the display.  In
> > f14's release of vi this is no longer true.
> >
> > I've looked through the command reference and don't see any way to
> > restore that behavior.
> >
> > 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?
>
> You need the 'vim-enhanced' package installed, ':set ruler' will then
> work. Your PATH should then find '/usr/bin/vim' in preference to
> '/bin/vi'.

@Hiisi, John,

Thanks, that was it.  Apparently the base install only provides vim-minimal.