On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:13:45PM -0400, James Vega wrote: >> Aha! You have spotted the problem. I have both vim-perl and vim-python >> installed, and even though they have the same priority, the system is >> defaulting to vim.python. > >You can change that with update-alternatives --config, but then you'll >run into a similar situation if you (or someone else on that machine) >want to use Python to script Vim. :) > >> So now the question is, is it possible to enable both Perl and Python at >> the same time? > >We have vim-full which has support for all the interpreters (minus >MzScheme). This is one of the situations where binary distributions are >lacking because there's a trade-off between trying to meet everyone's >needs and having numerous different versions of the same program.
Joy! vim-full is just the ticket. I can't think why it was not installed before. Binary distributions do have drawbacks, but generally, managing all of my programs with apt is far more effective then muddling with source when I don't have to. Thanks for the help. -- yours, William
