Hello I recently discovered that vim allows editing of gzip'd files. However, in my case, this capability is only available on my stock debian installation where I installed the vim package and not on my custom debian installation where I installed/Make'd vim myself.
I tried to rebuild/config/make vim with gzip options, but I couldn't find any such option. (I searched for gzip, and gz in the man page of vim, the vim Makefile, vim feature.h, and vim configure but never found it.) I did notice that vim --version on the two machines were slightly different. The most obvious of which was that the stock debian version included a "-DDEBIAN" switch. I also looked for that define in the vim source config files, but I didn't find it either. Does Debian somehow do something to the gzip files before vim edits them or something? Is magic involved? Many Thanks.
