Re: Perl Support in Debian
On 5/25/06, William O'Higgins Witteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Gentoo does it quite well, and generally you don't have to modify things and is all managed. In spite of that I am, too, a Debian user for the same reason you stated ;-). -- Regards, EddyP = Imagination is more important than knowledge A.Einstein
Perl Support in Debian
I'm hoping someone has a quick fix for this. I have installed vim-perl on Debian (from unstable) but when I look at :ver I see that Perl is listed as -perl. As I understand it, I should see +perl. Is there a way to fix this at run-time, or do I have to compile this in? Thanks. -- yours, William
Re: Perl Support in Debian
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:02:35PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote: I'm hoping someone has a quick fix for this. I have installed vim-perl on Debian (from unstable) Debian Vim maintainer hat Please report bugs with our Vim package directly to us. This allows us to determine if it's a packaging problem which we need to deal with or an upstream problem which we can triage and report to Bram. The preferred method of reporting bugs is via reportbug: apt-get install reportbug reportbug vim-perl /Debian Vim maintainer hat but when I look at :ver I see that Perl is listed as -perl. As I understand it, I should see +perl. Is there a way to fix this at run-time, or do I have to compile this in? Thanks. Are you sure you're running vim.perl and not another one of the variants we provide? Try explicitly invoking vim.perl instead of vim. If that works, then there's probably another variant of Vim installed which is being pointed to by the alternatives system. You can see what alternatives are providing the vim binary via: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display vim HTH, James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Perl Support in Debian
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
