sm_edit, error “E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: let skip_defaults_vim=1”

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

When you try to edit a config file using ./sm_edit, you get below error “E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: let skip_defaults_vim=1”. PFB screenshot:

Environment

All supported Smarts releases

Cause

• As seen in the error, this issue is due to "Error detected while processing /etc/virc" file. In this example there is an issue in line number 40 of /etc/virc file.
• This is not a Smarts issue. Issue here is w.r.t. vi editor's settings file virc.

Resolution

• Referring to the error description verify and correct the settings reported in the line number of virc file.
• In the above example resolution is to remove the setting let skip_defaults_vim=1 in /etc/virc file as this setting is not supported with the installed version of vi editor.