Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
>Tricky. Unless you really HATE some option (or support) that came with
>one of the "flavors" of VIM (tiny, small, big, huge), I strongly
>recommend you to stick to one of these. Probably a "big" version will be
>enough for you. In any case, ":help feature-list" and ":help install"
>within a running Vim.
>
>I may have not mentioned it: STICK TO ONE OF THE BASICS "FLAVORS" of
>Vim if you can live with it. It is much easier and you can rebuild when
>you are an expert in enabling and disabling features (some of them
>depend on others, so it is a bit tricky to get only what you want).

My problem was quite the opposite. I don't want to miss some cool option :D


2009/11/23 Frank Shute <[email protected]>:
> Is there any particular reason you want to compile and not install a
> package from one of the Ubuntu repositories?

It's been a while since last time I compiled Vim, so I'm not really
sure, but I was using some plugin that required a newer vim versione.
Maybe it was netrw.

> As you say, there are numerous patches which apt will fetch for you.
>
> Otherwise, you can probably fetch them all via ftp using a client that
> supports wildcards e.g lftp

Well, there are archives to download them easier, so that would not be
a problem. The problem would be to patch them all. I shall write a
script for that. I was just wondering if I had to download all of
them.

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