On 5/17/07, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
I, like all RIGHT and PROPER people, use a vi-derivative for my coding,
as only terrrrrrrrsts, paedos, and smokers use emacs. Specifically, I'm
using vim 7.0.
I recently intsalled a shiny new Debian Etch on my desktop at work.
After a little fiddling with my ~/.vimrc it does exactly what I want
with things like syntax highlighting, folding, indentation and so on.
I also installed a shiny new Debian Etch in a virtual machine that I'm
going to use to develop some code in. After exactly the same fiddling
with my ~/.vimrc there it most certainly does *not* do what I want. So
I consulted the fine manual, which told me to do, umm, exactly what I
had done. Obviously, there's a difference in the configuration
*somewhere* but determining precisely where all the configuration lives
is Hard if all you've got is the manpages.
I had to use strace, awk, md5sum and diff. To configure an editor.
Serves vi(m) users right.
--
There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is
'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
