Minor magic -- look in /etc/vimrc on your stock debian box. Roughly line 57-104 will be useful to you.
:) On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:46:28AM -0400, John Davis wrote: > 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. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
