Troubles with Vim

[R. G. Newbury]

I compiled a newer version of Vim and it has completely changed the way 
it works. I used to have a status indicator at the bottom of the window 
showing 'Insert', 'Replace' or ':'. That has disappeared and wierd 
things happen with certain keystrokes: Left Arrow INSERTS a 'd'..etc.

I cannot make sense of which settings would return this to the standard 
setup which Fedora installed. Help!

  vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled Sep 24 2007 15:11:17)
Compiled by root at tor2.mandamus.org
Normal version with GTK GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
-arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse +builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info 
+comments
+cryptv -cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +diff +digraphs +dnd -ebcdic
-emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search -farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path
+folding -footer +fork() -gettext -hangul_input -iconv +insert_expand 
+jumplist
  -keymap -langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +menu
+mksession +modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape -mouse_dec +mouse_gpm
-mouse_jsbterm -mouse_netterm +mouse_xterm -multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme
+netbeans_intg -osfiletype +path_extra -perl +postscript +printer -profile
-python +quickfix +reltime -rightleft -ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent
-sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static
-tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title +toolbar
+user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo 
+vreplace
+wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup +X11 -xfontset +xim 
+xsmp_interact
+xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
    system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
      user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
       user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
   system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
     user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
     system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
   fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/local/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK 
-I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include 
  -g -O2
Linking: gcc   -L/usr/local/lib -o vim   -L/usr/lib -lgtk -lgdk 
-rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -lXi -lXext -lm -lXt -lncurses -lacl -lgpm

Geoff


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