Robert Cussons wrote:
Thanks Bram and Tony, haven't been ignoring your replies, but it's my
work machine and they have just updated to Debian Etch, but I haven't
restarted my machine yet as I have a lot of things running at the moment
and so was waiting for the weekend. Anyway just this morning I thought I
would check on which version was actually packaged on Etch and it is:
1:7.0-122+1etch2
So I guess that won't help much if patch 182 is especially important!
So....as it's my work machine and I don't have root access, do I need to
go and talk nicely to the system administrator to get him to apply these
patches?
Thanks for all the help,
Rob.
Talk nicely to your sysadmin or your sysop, maybe around a glass of beer or a
cup of coffee if you can, and try to convince him to upgrade Vim. He may not
like compiling it himself though, even though it is not really hard: see my
Vim cheat sheet, http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm --
you may want to print that for him before you talk to him. He may be
interested in the fact that his current version dates back to begin October,
and that since then 111 more patches (including the ones you need) have been
published, including several new ones yesterday.
Best regards,
Tony.
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