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I have just started using the vim editor on my home computer running Ubuntu and I have some questions:
[list]How do you turn on line numbers?[/list:u]
[list]How do you get colors like opus has? [/list:u]
[list]How do you get the highlighting of matching brackets, etc.?[/list:u]

Thanks..

See Nic's post on how to turn on line numbers at:

[url]http://simms-teach.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=441&p=1439&hilit=vi+line+number#p1439[/url]

Ubuntu has a reduced functionality VIM so:
[list]
[*]Get the full version with: apt-get install vim-full[/*:m]
[*]Alias vi to vim[/*:m]
[*]In vim, issue the :sytax enable command[/*:m]
[*]Or better, echo "sytax enable" >> .vimrc (in your home directory)[/*:m][/list:u]
- Rich

Things I like to add to my .vimrc file:

set tabstop=4
set expandtab

The first sets the number of spaces a tab in the file accounts for.
The second expands tabs to spaces.

This is just my preference.

-collin