Re: missing vim highlight

Michael D. Berger wrote:
Thanks for these clues, but it is not fixed yet.

:set hlsearch and :set nohlsearch work as expected on boxA, but
have no effect on boxB.

boxB has only one user. It is a web server, and login is only
to examine the logs (where the highlight would be most useful)
and for web upgrade.

Neither box has a .vimrc . Only one person uses these boxes,
so /etc/vimrc is adequate.

A surprising difference is that boxA has a .viminfo, but boxB
does not. I copied the .viminfo from boxA to boxB, but it
had no effect. I emphasize that the /etc/vimrc for the two
boxes are identical, as I just reconfirmed.

So boxA has "normal" users and boxB just has root?

Run alias on both boxes: I bet you'll find root on boxB is running "vi",
whereas the alias on boxA means that when you type vi, you get vim.

This comes from /etc/profile.d/vim.sh which says
[ `/usr/bin/id -u` -le 100 ] && return
# for bash and zsh, only if no alias is already set
alias vi >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias vi=vim
In other words, for accounts less than 100, the alias isn't set.

Handle that how you wish: I'd put something into root's ~/.bash_profile.

Hope this helps,

James.

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