On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 19-Sep-2000 llx wrote:
> > Generally you can write the messages in another editor and
> > copy&paste the
> > text to your mailer's composer.
> >
> > One possible option is vim. Since you have Mandrake 7.0, the
> > easiest for
>
> I tried upgrading to VIM from Mandrake 7.1 but I guess my inexperience using
> RPM is causing me a problem. After downloading, I tried running RPM to upgrade
> and got an error message saying that components from the existing version were
> causing a conflict. I tried uninstalling (using RPM again) the Mandrake 7.0
> version and got a message saying that the package is not installed. What am I
> doing wrong.
What error messages exactly?
Generally you should upgrade all of the vim packages together:
download vim-* packages from 7.1, and run
rpm -Uv vim-*.i386.rpm
(or anything similar). This should work. Let me know what error messages
you get, if you get any.
> Also, in general, it seems to me that since my e-mail client (XFMail) does
> support the Hebrew font (as I said, I can see Hebrew messages that I receive),
> there should be a simple key combination (like ALT-Shift on WIN98) to enter the
> Hebrew characters, but I can't figure out how to do it, and couldn't find any
> mention of this in the various links you sent.
Make sure that locales-he is installed, and LANG is set to "he".
on Mandrkae it would be the simplest to use /etc/sysconfig/i18n or
$HOME/.i18n . I quote here one that should work on Mandrake 7.0:
---
# locale stuff
LANG=he
LINGUAS=he:iw_IL
LANGUAGE=he
# console fonts stuff
# font to use
SYSFONT=iso08.f16
# unicode map file
UNIMAP=iso08
# font-to-encoding translation file
SYSFONTACM=trivial.trans
---
Now run keyboarddrake and select "hebrew". This should setup X keyboard
(for Mandrake >= 7.0), but
see: http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/?=&auth=ckd7887cc45e21&editCmds=show&file=87
This is Mandrake-spesific.
As for the others: Have a look at http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/86.html
(which I revised today).
I haven't tested enough what I wrote there, so any comments would be
welcomed.
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Tzafrir Cohen
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