up vote 1 down vote favorite
share [g+] share [fb]

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?

link|improve this question
1  
FWIW: :ver will tell you the features compiled into vim. It may be that textobjects is turned off in your build. – Laurence Gonsalves Nov 12 '09 at 0:03
feedback

migrated from stackoverflow.com Nov 12 '09 at 19:06

This question came from our site for professional and enthusiast programmers.

2 Answers

up vote 6 down vote

Open Vim and enter

:version

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

link|improve this answer
Yes, there we have it. Features included (+) or not (-): -textobjects. – jnstq Nov 12 '09 at 8:25
The next question is, how does i enable textobjects? – jnstq Nov 12 '09 at 10:26
@jnstq, Sorry mate. That's a compile time options afaik. – Rob Wells Nov 12 '09 at 10:32
5  
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. – Luc Hermitte Nov 12 '09 at 15:38
@Luc, superbe! I was wondering about why I was getting the reduced vi by default. +1 – Rob Wells Nov 12 '09 at 17:31
feedback
up vote 2 down vote

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.

link|improve this answer
feedback

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown