Re: vim 5.3, gzip files, and Debian Slink
Minor magic -- look in /etc/vimrc on your stock debian box. Roughly line
57-104 will be useful to you.
:)
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:46:28AM -0400, John Davis wrote:
> Hello
>
> I recently discovered that vim allows editing of gzip'd files. However,
> in my case, this capability is only available on my stock debian
> installation where I installed the vim package and not on my custom
> debian installation where I installed/Make'd vim myself.
>
> I tried to rebuild/config/make vim with gzip options, but I couldn't
> find any such option. (I searched for gzip, and gz in the man page of
> vim, the vim Makefile, vim feature.h, and vim configure but never found
> it.) I did notice that vim --version on the two machines were slightly
> different. The most obvious of which was that the stock debian version
> included a "-DDEBIAN" switch. I also looked for that define in the vim
> source config files, but I didn't find it either.
>
> Does Debian somehow do something to the gzip files before vim edits them
> or something? Is magic involved?
>
> Many Thanks.
>
>
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