I am telnet using OpenVms and there was no vim by default. I have to port a vim into OpenVms by myself. I don't have control of the machine itself.
I downloaded a copy of vim72 for OpenVms and unzip it to a directory, then define symbol to link to the VIM.EXE.
TGSM_OPR> sh sym vim
VIM == "$GSMACPTUSER:[USER.TGSM_OPR.AXP.RAYMOND_LAM.VIM72]VIM.EXE"
I copied the vimrc file to the sys$login directory and started using vim.
I found that I cannot use the backspace key, nor Ctrl+H work in some scenarios. If I start a new document, the backspace is working and I can backspace whenever I want. However, if I open a already existing file which have some text inside, I cannot backspace those text.
I don't know which .vimrc it is using.
I found there is a GSMACPTUSER:[USER.TGSM_OPR.AXP.RAYMOND_LAM.VIM72]VIMRC.;6 . But after editting it, say add a line "set number" to it, it doesn't give the effect(no number).
Edit: I copy the content of vimrc. to .vimrc inside sys$login, and some function are working, but some don't. Showmode is working, Line number is not working, backspace not working, although I can use REPLACE(press insert twice) to overwrite the words.
Here is the content of the .vimrc I created in sys$login:
" An example for a vimrc file.
"
" Maintainer: Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
" Last change: 2008 Jul 02
"
" To use it, copy it to
" for Unix and OS/2: ~/.vimrc
" for Amiga: s:.vimrc
" for MS-DOS and Win32: $VIM\_vimrc
" for OpenVMS: sys$login:.vimrc
" When started as "evim", evim.vim will already have done these settings.
set showmode
set number
set tabstop=8
set shiftwidth=8
if v:progname =~? "evim"
finish
endif
" Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!).
" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
set nocompatible
" allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set backspace=2
if has("vms")
set nobackup " do not keep a backup file, use versions instead
hi search ctermbg=LightBlue
let Tlist_Ctags_Cmd="vim:ctags.exe" " for taglist plugin
else
set backup " keep a backup file
endif
set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler " show the cursor position all the time
set showcmd " display incomplete commands
set incsearch " do incremental searching
" For Win32 GUI: remove 't' flag from 'guioptions': no tearoff menu entries
" let &guioptions = substitute(&guioptions, "t", "", "g")
" Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting
map Q gq
" CTRL-U in insert mode deletes a lot. Use CTRL-G u to first break undo,
" so that you can undo CTRL-U after inserting a line break.
inoremap <C-U> <C-G>u<C-U>
" In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable it.
if has('mouse')
set mouse=a
endif
" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
syntax on
set hlsearch
endif
" Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands.
if has("autocmd")
" Enable file type detection.
" Use the default filetype settings, so that mail gets 'tw' set to 72,
" 'cindent' is on in C files, etc.
" Also load indent files, to automatically do language-dependent indenting.
filetype plugin indent on
" Put these in an autocmd group, so that we can delete them easily.
augroup vimrcEx
au!
" For all text files set 'textwidth' to 78 characters.
autocmd FileType text setlocal textwidth=78
" When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
" Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler
" (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
" Also don't do it when the mark is in the first line, that is the default
" position when opening a file.
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
\ exe "normal! g`\"" |
\ endif
augroup END
else
set autoindent " always set autoindenting on
endif " has("autocmd")
" Convenient command to see the difference between the current buffer and the
" file it was loaded from, thus the changes you made.
" Only define it when not defined already.
if !exists(":DiffOrig")
command DiffOrig vert new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis
\ | wincmd p | diffthis
endif