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I'm using version 7.1.138 on Ubuntu 8.04, on this machine ciw - change inner word command does not work. No custom settings is done to vim. Does someone know why?

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    FWIW: :ver will tell you the features compiled into vim. It may be that textobjects is turned off in your build. Nov 12, 2009 at 0:03

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Open Vim and enter

:version

to see if textobject has been enabled at compile time in your version of Vim.

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  • Yes, there we have it. Features included (+) or not (-): -textobjects.
    – jnstq
    Nov 12, 2009 at 8:25
  • The next question is, how does i enable textobjects?
    – jnstq
    Nov 12, 2009 at 10:26
  • @jnstq, Sorry mate. That's a compile time options afaik.
    – Rob Wells
    Nov 12, 2009 at 10:32
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    Don't (never?) use a lite-version of vim. On some distributions, starting vi instead of vim will start vim is a degraded lite-mode. Nov 12, 2009 at 15:38
  • @Luc, superbe! I was wondering about why I was getting the reduced vi by default. +1
    – Rob Wells
    Nov 12, 2009 at 17:31
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Debian/Ubuntu install vim-tiny by default. Installing the vim package gives you the full version. There's also vim-gnome (previously vim-full) which includes the full version as well as a GUI version. As far as I know (and there's nothing about this in the man page), vim behaves the same regardless of whether you invoke it as vi.

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