On 24 nov, 10:16, "Christian Brabandt" <[email protected]> wrote: > (Please don't top post). > > On Wed, November 24, 2010 9:40 am, KasperH wrote: > > for completeness, CygWin: > > $ vi -k > > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Feb 11 2010 17:36:58) > > Unknown option argument: "-k" > > More info with: "vim -h" > > There is no option -k. > > Please show the output of :version. That should give us some > information, which vi clone is installed and in case of vim, > how it was compiled. For vim, to support -x, it needs at least > a normal build (that is no small or tiny version, see output of > :version) > > > r...@my-ubuntu:~# aptitude show vim > > On a Debian derived distribution, use something like > ~$ dpkg -l 'vim*' |grep '^ii' > > I don't know for rpm-based distributions. > > regards, > Christian
I know -k is invalid, it gives me the brief version output. I 've looked at the output of "vi --version" on all three, turns out: Cygwin: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Feb 11 2010 17:36:58) Included patches: 1-264 Compiled by http://cygwin.com/ Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): <...> Ubuntu 8.04: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled Jan 8 2009 02:12:14) Included patches: 1-138 Compiled by [email protected] Small version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): Fedora 14: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Nov 16 2010 17:05:33) Included patches: 1-56 Modified by <[email protected]> Compiled by <[email protected]> Small version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): So I have the Small versions on Ubuntu and Fedora I do not want to polute this thread with all the +'s and -'s, too bad I cannot attach a text file with the whole script(1) output. I'll have a look at vim.org for the "Huge" versions -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
