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, that is not the worst of the problems... According to policy, /usr/doc stuff gets gzipped, which is ok with vim, it can read gzipped things. However, the problem is that it needs some specific lines in vimrc to be able to do that, and since vimrc is a conf file, we are in trouble if the lines are not there. I see several possible solutions: 1. Go against policy and not compress /usr/doc/vim. Result: 1276 vim as opposed to: 600 vim Advantages: no fooling with vimrc file, simple. 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. 3. Simply check vimrc and mention the findings to the user. 4. Compress everything but help.txt.gz, so that even without the compression handling lines in vimrc, :help works. This is a bit gentler, but doesnt solve the core problem. Might involve some fooling with the tags file too.. (yuck). If anyone knows vim well (or at all, I use it quite rarely), and would prefer to do this work, be my guest. Barring that, I have fixed up a few bugs here and there and will but this in frozen. Powered by emacs;-P -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]