I am running on Snow\u00a0Leopard\u00a010.6.6. at the time of this post. \u00a0VI is a handy tool to use because it is installed on every single non-windows box I have ever seen. \u00a0I originally only used nano and I have found out that nano is not everywhere.<\/p>\n
1) you need to locate your .vimrc file, on osx I just did a locate vimrc and got this<\/p>\n
\r\nbash-3.2# locate vimrc\r\n\/opt\/local\/var\/macports\/sources\/rsync.macports.org\/release\/ports\/editors\/vim-app\/files\/gvimrc\r\n\/opt\/local\/var\/macports\/sources\/rsync.macports.org\/release\/ports\/editors\/vim-app\/files\/vimrc\r\n\/usr\/share\/vim\/vim72\/gvimrc_example.vim\r\n\/usr\/share\/vim\/vim72\/vimrc_example.vim\r\n\/usr\/share\/vim\/vimrc\r\n<\/pre>\n2) now just vi open that file<\/p>\n
I did a vi \/usr\/share\/vim\/vimrc and then added the line set number to the end here is how my file looks-><\/p>\n
\r\n" Configuration file for vim \r\nset modelines=0 " CVE-2007-2438\r\n\r\n" Normally we use vim-extensions. If you want true vi-compatibility\r\n" remove change the following statements\r\nset nocompatible " Use Vim defaults instead of 100% vi compatibility\r\nset backspace=2 " more powerful backspacing\r\n\r\n" Don't write backup file if vim is being called by "crontab -e" \r\nau BufWrite \/private\/tmp\/crontab.* set nowritebackup\r\n" Don't write backup file if vim is being called by "chpass"\r\nau BufWrite \/private\/etc\/pw.* set nowritebackup\r\n\r\nset number\r\n<\/pre>\n3) now quit and save, everytime you open vi it will show line numbers, to turn them off you can do a :set nonumber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am running on Snow\u00a0Leopard\u00a010.6.6. at the time of this post. \u00a0VI is a handy tool to use because it is installed on every single non-windows box I have ever seen. \u00a0I originally only used nano and I have found out that nano is not everywhere. 1) you need to locate your .vimrc file, on … <\/p>\n