Mark Manning wrote:
Ok, after downloading the current items on the web page at vim.org both
C and Perl are working ok (in both Windows and Cygwin/Linux). Basic
still has the problems from before. Thanks to everyone for speaking
up. :-)
To Tony: Thanks for the diff command. I'll see about posting it but
not until after Bram has said it is ok. :-)
I also see that the web page version of 7.0 is very out-of-date (If I
put in "echo version" it comes back as 700. Even the 7.0.17 version
comes back as 700 (which turns out to have been installed into /usr/bin
instead of /usr/local/bin)). Ok. Now all I have to do is to rsync the
Cygwin version and CVS the Windows one so they are both up-to-date. A
few more minutes work. :-)
1. Next time, please use a more explicit "Subject:" line, and, if you
continue a single conversation, use "Reply to all" rather than "Write
new mail". It makes a difference on mail clients which, like mine, can
group posts by thread.
2. version will be 700 on all patchlevels of 7.0. To see the highest
patch number included, see ":intro", and to see them all, look at the
first four lines of the output of ":version". If the latter doesn't say
"Included patches:" then you have an unpatched version. The latest
patchlevel of 7.0 is currently 99; any new patches will be published by
Bram in the vim-dev list. To test (in a script) whether such-and-such a
patch was included, see ":help has-patch".
3. Programs which come bundled with a Linux distribution will usually be
installed in /usr/bin unless there's a reason to put them some other
place (such as /usr/X11R6/bin or /opt/kde3/bin). /usr/local/bin
intentionally comes ahead of all those places in the $PATH, so
additional software added by the user will take precedence if the
program name is the same. To see all the places in your $PATH where an
executable named (e.g.) vim has been installed, and also all aliases (if
any) for "vim", use (in bash or similar shell)
type -a vim
If there is more than one, the first one listed is the one which will be
invoked when you type just "vim" at the shell prompt.
Best regards,
Tony.
