Re: vimdiff

[shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 17:41, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/12/11 at 03:28pm, shawn wilson wrote:
>> could someone please tell me how i'm messing up? i know they didn't
>> remove vimdiff from debian stable:
>>
>>
>> \h:\w\$ vimdiff
>> This Vim was not compiled with the diff feature.
>> \h:\w\$ apt-get install vimdiff
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Unable to locate package vimdiff
>> \h:\w\$ apt-cache search vimdiff
>
> Please post `dpkg -l vim`
> On my squeeze system, vimdiff is a symlink to vim.basic

dpkg -l vim
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                           Version
                           Description
+++-==============================================-==============================================-============================================================================================================
un  vim                                            <none>
                           (no description available)