Gentlemen, thank you so much for spotting the too obvious to see mistake I have been making. When I typed "vim" the error message revealed I had never installed vim... I had installed a smaller reduced features package that used the name "vi".
As soon as I ran sudo apt-get install vim and then carefully started it with "vim" I see that I do have the fully functional vim package and I can decrypt my password file with no further trouble. Thank you very much. Lee n Wed, 2014-12-31 at 14:56 -0500, James McCoy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:39:17AM -0800, Lee McKusick wrote: > > Previous response from Christian Brabandt asked me to run :version on my > > problem copy of vim. > > > > Mr. Brabandt put his finger on the problem. Thank you. The easy to > > download vim package containing vim 7.3.429 is lacking the +crypt > > option. > > Install a better vim package (like vim-nox or vim-gtk) than vim-tiny, > just like you did on your other system. Also, stop typing vi when you > mean vim. If you weren't doing that, then you would have noticed you > didn't have "vim" installed and done so. > > Cheers, > -- > James > GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <[email protected]> > > -- -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
