Georgiy Treyvus wrote: > On 09/14/2015 04:43 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > >> On So, 13 Sep 2015, James McCoy wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 06:16:22PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > >>>> While I can appreciate the problem of running out of disc space, 3.5 > >>>> MB is only 0.23 % of 1.5 GB. If that little bit is a problem, and > >>>> you are trying to squeeze extra space out of your file system 0.23 % > >>>> at a time, you are not spending your time wisely. > >>> > >>> I have 2100 packages installed on my system. If all of them decided > >>> 3.5MB of savings wasn't worthwhile, that's over 7GB of extra data. In > >>> isolation, 3.5MB isn't but in total it can be an appreciable difference. > >>> > >>> That being said, we stopped compressing the help files in Debian's > >>> packages back in 2004 since, at the time, :helpgrep didn't work with > >>> compressed help files. I'm not sure whether that's still the case. > >> > >> Looks like this is still an issue. Wondering how the fedora guys solved > >> that. Anyway here is a patch, that loads the gzip plugin when running > >> vimtutor. > > > > Thanks. Can someone for who it didn't work before confirm that this > > fixes the problem? > > > Bram are you referring to this bug or the other one involving :helpgrep? > I feel like I'm missing some context with regards to what's being > discussed here. Perhaps if I better understood this context I could be > of help testing that everything does indeed work as it should.
I was referring to the patch that Christian provided. Any remaining problem after that? > I'm not sure if the issue being discussed is this one or the related one > involving the :helpgrep command. I'm not sure if the bug you folks are > talking about occurs on Debian or Fedora or both. Also with regards to > Christian's patch what version of Vim or what git revision of what > branch must I build and/or acquire to test/confirm that all is well? I can only fix the Vim distribution, not Debian or Fedora :-). > I use Fedora and while it would be difficult for me to migrate to Debian > if this is a Debian related issue perhaps I may be able to still run the > tests from a Debian Live CD assuming they've gotten less buggy since > last I've seen them. Let me know if/how I can be of help to you. -- How To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity: 8. Don't use any punctuation marks. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
