Add Color to VIM?
In Fedora 20, documents have no color coding when you edit them with vi or vim. That’s because Fedora installs vim-minimal by default. You can check what’s running with the following command at a shell prompt in the terminal:
rpm -qa | grep vim |
It should print the following to console:
vim-minimal-7.4.179-1.fc20.x86_64 |
You can download and install vim with the enhanced version by using the following syntax:
sudo yum install vim-enhanced |
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package vim-enhanced.x86_64 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: vim-common = 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 for package: 2:vim-enhanced-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libgpm.so.2()(64bit) for package: 2:vim-enhanced-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package gpm-libs.x86_64 0:1.20.7-3.fc20 will be installed ---> Package vim-common.x86_64 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: vim-filesystem for package: 2:vim-common-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package vim-filesystem.x86_64 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: vim-enhanced x86_64 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 updates 1.0 M Installing for dependencies: gpm-libs x86_64 1.20.7-3.fc20 fedora 32 k vim-common x86_64 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 updates 5.9 M vim-filesystem x86_64 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 updates 11 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 1 Package (+3 Dependent packages) Total download size: 7.0 M Installed size: 23 M Is this ok [y/d/N]: y Downloading packages: (1/4): gpm-libs-1.20.7-3.fc20.x86_64.rpm | 32 kB 00:00 (2/4): vim-enhanced-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm | 1.0 MB 00:03 (3/4): vim-filesystem-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm | 11 kB 00:03 (4/4): vim-common-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm | 5.9 MB 00:05 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1.3 MB/s | 7.0 MB 00:05 Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction Installing : 2:vim-filesystem-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64 1/4 Installing : 2:vim-common-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64 2/4 Installing : gpm-libs-1.20.7-3.fc20.x86_64 3/4 Installing : 2:vim-enhanced-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64 4/4 Verifying : gpm-libs-1.20.7-3.fc20.x86_64 1/4 Verifying : 2:vim-common-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64 2/4 Verifying : 2:vim-enhanced-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64 3/4 Verifying : 2:vim-filesystem-7.4.417-1.fc20.x86_64 4/4 Installed: vim-enhanced.x86_64 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 Dependency Installed: gpm-libs.x86_64 0:1.20.7-3.fc20 vim-common.x86_64 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 vim-filesystem.x86_64 2:7.4.417-1.fc20 Complete! |
You can now type vim to edit files in color but vi will still be in black and white.
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