I had a similar experience when I recompiled Vim, coming from using vim as packaged by Ubuntu.
The differences in behaviour were annoying, but they were not because of the compiling options; it was because of the "system vimrc" (in this case /usr/share/vim73/debian.vim, if memory does not fail me), which sets some default vim options. Maybe the difficulties your students are having are not just because of version but also because of system options. I hope this helps. Regards, Frederico On Oct 15, 12:04 am, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-10-14, Chaitanya wrote: > > Our students were using Redhat 5.x previously in which they were using > > vim 7.0.109 and now some of them want to work in Ubuntu. In Ubuntu > > 10.04 the version available is 7.2.x. they find some difficulties in > > new version. can any one please help on how to install older version > > of vim that is 7.0.109 on Ubuntu 10.04 and successfully use it. > > You're assuming that the difficulties your students are facing are due to the > differences between Vim versions 7.0.109 and 7.2.x. The difficulties may > instead be due to differences between the way Red Hat and Canonical build and > configure their Vim packages. They may even be due to some other difference > between their Red Hat and Ubuntu environments. > > Since any solution is going to require some effort, I think it would be a much > better idea to identify the difficulties they're having and describe them here > so that we can find proper solutions. Your students will be able to run a > more > up-to-date version of Vim that is supported on their chosen distribution, and > they may learn something about problem-solving to boot. > > Regards, > Gary -- 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
