A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Robert Cussons wrote:
Thanks Bram and Tony, haven't been ignoring your replies, but it's my
work machine and they have just updated to Debian Etch, but I haven't
restarted my machine yet as I have a lot of things running at the
moment and so was waiting for the weekend. Anyway just this morning I
thought I would check on which version was actually packaged on Etch
and it is: 1:7.0-122+1etch2
So I guess that won't help much if patch 182 is especially important!
So....as it's my work machine and I don't have root access, do I need
to go and talk nicely to the system administrator to get him to apply
these patches?
Thanks for all the help,
Rob.
Talk nicely to your sysadmin or your sysop, maybe around a glass of beer
or a cup of coffee if you can, and try to convince him to upgrade Vim.
He may not like compiling it himself though, even though it is not
really hard: see my Vim cheat sheet,
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm -- you may
want to print that for him before you talk to him. He may be interested
in the fact that his current version dates back to begin October, and
that since then 111 more patches (including the ones you need) have been
published, including several new ones yesterday.
Best regards,
Tony.
Thanks Tony, doubt he'll be that interested as he's an emacs user! But
anyway some time next week I will try and convince him.
