orion color syntax in vi

[randyriegel]

I have an account on Carbon and one on Orion. On carbon when I use vi to edit files I have color syntax highlighting, but I don't seem to have that when I use vi on Orion. How can I get this on Orion. I copied the same .vimrc file into my Orion home directory that I have in my home directory on Carbon, but that doesn't seem to help. Even tried "syntax on" from within vi and nothing.

Randy

[Ron]

Maybe try "vim" instead of "vi"?

[randyriegel]

vim does not work, gives me a command not found error.

[Spathiphyllum]

Do you need to enter an explicit path to vim due to jailshell? Is that what you do for vi, or do you just enter 'vi do-this-command -modswitch' and let the OS interpolate the /bin or /sbin directories?

[randyriegel]

I just enter "vi" then the command (vi <filename>).

[jason]

On silicon (as is the case with most Linux servers) the command vi is just an alias to the program "vim." vim on silicon is located at /usr/bin/vim. I suppose that there is a chance that one of your servers has the "real" vi, or more likely the two servers have different versions of vim installed. I'm not a vi power user, so I can't help you more than that.

Try running the commands "which vi" and "which vim" and see what you get.

--Jason

[randyriegel]

"which vi" returns /bin/vi
"which vim" returns "not found"
but if I type "vi" by itself so I get the initial vi screen is says it is vim

VIM on orion is actually a newer version than on carbon and carbon highlights all my stuff fine. I guess it's not really a big deal but things are much easier to read when highlighted.

Randy

[randyriegel]

opened a ticket asking support about it and they took care of it.

Randy