Re: Upgrading to Vim 7.0 in Debian (was Re: :ha printouts - fontsize)

2006-06-07 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:10:21PM EDT, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:08PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > >Just for the record: I tried installing "etch" about three months ago > >but the installer was unable to detect my PC card. I fooled him by going > > Ah, I can se

Re: Upgrading to Vim 7.0 in Debian (was Re: :ha printouts - fontsize)

2006-06-07 Thread William O'Higgins Witteman
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:08PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: >Just for the record: I tried installing "etch" about three months ago >but the installer was unable to detect my PC card. I fooled him by going Ah, I can see where that might be a problem. I've never installed in that manner - I install in

Re: Upgrading to Vim 7.0 in Debian (was Re: :ha printouts - fontsize)

2006-06-07 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:20:56AM EDT, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:51:48PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > >> I will assume that you, as a relatively new Debian user, are running > >> stable (sarge). > > > >Yes. But the main reason is that I am a new Debian user on

Re: Upgrading to Vim 7.0 in Debian (was Re: :ha printouts - fontsize)

2006-06-07 Thread William O'Higgins Witteman
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:51:48PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: >> I will assume that you, as a relatively new Debian user, are running >> stable (sarge). > >Yes. But the main reason is that I am a new Debian user on a laptop :-( I have taken the middle path with Debian, and use testing. This gives m

Re: Upgrading to Vim 7.0 in Debian (was Re: :ha printouts - fontsize)

2006-06-07 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
cga2000 wrote: [...] Very clear explanation. What I am worried about when doing this sort of thing is that since I don't know the debian packaging system this may have side-effects that will bite me at some point in the future. In other words I do not understand the implications. Such as what hap

Re: :ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-07 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
cga2000 wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 03:11:08AM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: cga2000 wrote: [..] Well, here I am a "comparatively new" user of SuSE Linux, and I found it remarkably easy to compile Vim 7 on it. If you decide you want to try your hand at it, I was contemplat

Re: Upgrading to Vim 7.0 in Debian (was Re: :ha printouts - fontsize)

2006-06-06 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:22:44PM EDT, Marvin Renich wrote: > * A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060605 03:04]: > > cga2000 wrote: [..] > > Compiling is not hard, but there are already Debian packages with Vim > 7.0, so you can simply install them (they may not be quite as up-to-date > as the

Re: :ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-06 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 03:11:08AM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote: [..] > > Well, here I am a "comparatively new" user of SuSE Linux, and I found it > remarkably easy to compile Vim 7 on it. If you decide you want to try > your hand at it, I was contemplating switching to gentoo a

Upgrading to Vim 7.0 in Debian (was Re: :ha printouts - fontsize)

2006-06-05 Thread Marvin Renich
* A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060605 03:04]: > cga2000 wrote: > [...] > >.. as I suspected. Some of the stuff I've read about v7.0 on this list > >rather made my mouth water.. but as a comparatively new user of debian > >upgrading vim is something I'm not prepared to do just now.. > >Thank

Re: :ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
cga2000 wrote: [...] .. as I suspected. Some of the stuff I've read about v7.0 on this list rather made my mouth water.. but as a comparatively new user of debian upgrading vim is something I'm not prepared to do just now.. Thanks, cga Well, here I am a "comparatively new" user of SuSE

Re: :ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:07:47PM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:57:56PM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > > > >>cga2000 wrote: > >> > >>>I occasionally need a quick printout of what I am currently editing and > >>>use the :ha command. I was wondering wh

Re: :ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-04 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
cga2000 wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:57:56PM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: cga2000 wrote: I occasionally need a quick printout of what I am currently editing and use the :ha command. I was wondering whether there was any way I could switch to a different printer font or choose a small

Re: :ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:57:56PM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >I occasionally need a quick printout of what I am currently editing and > >use the :ha command. I was wondering whether there was any way I could > >switch to a different printer font or choose a smaller font size. >

Re: :ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:50:02PM EDT, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi, > > On 6/4/06, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I occasionally need a quick printout of what I am currently editing and > >use the :ha command. I was wondering whether there was any way I could > >switch to a different p

Re: :ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-04 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
cga2000 wrote: I occasionally need a quick printout of what I am currently editing and use the :ha command. I was wondering whether there was any way I could switch to a different printer font or choose a smaller font size. I doubt this is relevant but just in case I'll mention that I use vim on

Re: :ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-04 Thread Yegappan Lakshmanan
Hi, On 6/4/06, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I occasionally need a quick printout of what I am currently editing and use the :ha command. I was wondering whether there was any way I could switch to a different printer font or choose a smaller font size. Did you try changing the 'printfon

:ha printouts - fontsize

2006-06-04 Thread cga2000
I occasionally need a quick printout of what I am currently editing and use the :ha command. I was wondering whether there was any way I could switch to a different printer font or choose a smaller font size. I doubt this is relevant but just in case I'll mention that I use vim on an xterm and cup