Re: debianized vim

["Seneca Cunningham" <seneca@slemish.com>]

news [news@main.gmane.org]; on behalf of; Harry Putnam
[reader@newsguy.com]
> Setup: Woody/testing
>
> After installing vim with apt-get, I find that the debianizations that

So, vim 6.

> have been done cause sections of my .vimrc, built up over time on
> several different platforms to be unusable.
[...]
> Some thing in this code cause a mess with debians setup.  The
> helpfiles when accessed in the normal way inside vim with :h <subject>
> give this warning and then appear in binary.
>
>    Error detected while processing function GZIP_read:
>    line    3:
>    E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off
>    E434: Can't find tag pattern
> When I hit `enter' the file appears in binary format.

This looks familiar...

> Maybe my code can just be edited somehow so there is no conflict.
> Otherwise I'd like to gunzip the helpfiles and redo the tags stuff.

Now I remeber where I saw it... I saw it after I had upgraded from vim 5
to vim 6. To get the helptext back, I looked at the default vimrc
provided for vim 6. The ending of my vimrc now is:

if has("autocmd")
 filetype plugin on

Seneca
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