On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:40:30AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Sat 11 Apr 1998, David Welton wrote:
>
> > Notwithstanding my dislike for things vi;-), vim is a nice program
> > used by a lot of people, so I though I'd try and fix some of the more
> > serious bugs.
>
> Is the vim maintainer n
On Sat 11 Apr 1998, David Welton wrote:
> Notwithstanding my dislike for things vi;-), vim is a nice program
> used by a lot of people, so I though I'd try and fix some of the more
> serious bugs.
Is the vim maintainer not maintaining it then? AFAIK Galen Hazelwood
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is the main
> I originally asked that there be a D option which would do
> diff -u $x $x.dpkg-dist | ${PAGER:-more}
I did too, though I'd make the change that any arguments given after
the D get passed to diff instead of -u... though -u is what I usually
want, it lets people use "D -c" if they want (it's a
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 10:40:07PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>
> David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >The debian conffile system has a weakness: there's no simple way to
> >announce what the significance of a changed conffile at administrator
> >decision time.
Not to be picky, an
James R. Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>diff /etc/foo.conf /etc/foo.conf.dpkg-dist | head -18
I originally asked that there be a D option which would do
diff -u $x $x.dpkg-dist | ${PAGER:-more}
and was told that that was what the Z option was for.
Unfortunately, I don't think human
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>The debian conffile system has a weakness: there's no simple way to
>announce what the significance of a changed conffile at administrator
>decision time.
I was thinking the other day that when dpkg discovers a conffile has
been changed, it should displa
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Can't you put a global vmrc in /etc?
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's the one I'm talking about - it is a conf file, and may well
> have been changed by the admin.
The debian conffile system has a weakness: there's n
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. Ask the user if it is ok to fool with vimrc ,and script the
> > necessary changes. This strikes me as being ugly and something that
> > we might be stuck with for a long time, in the name
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. Ask the user if it is ok to fool with vimrc ,and script the
> necessary changes. This strikes me as being ugly and something that
> we might be stuck with for a long time, in the name of backwards
> compatibility.
Can't you put a global vmrc in /etc?
Notwithstanding my dislike for things vi;-), vim is a nice program
used by a lot of people, so I though I'd try and fix some of the more
serious bugs.
The worst of these is the problem with loading the help file. At some
point the name seems to have changed from vim_help.txt to help.txt.
However,
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