Vim-Enhanced

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VIM-enhanced is an improved version of vi with more features such as GUI support, online help and syntax highlighting.

The CentOS 5 installer has an option in the package selection area for installing Vim-enhanced along with the rest of the operating system. If you are using CentOS 4, you can add vim-enhanced post-install:

yum -y install vim-enhanced

Whichever way you have installed it, you'll like want to swap /bin/vi for a symbolic link to vim-enhanced:

mv /bin/vi /bin/vi.old
ln -s /usr/bin/vim /bin/vi

Scripts
Vim supports scripts which extend it's functionality, mark different kinds of syntax, etc.

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