Jon Stanley wrote: >On Dec 7, 2007 11:30 AM, Charles E Campbell Jr ><charles.e.campbell at nasa.gov> wrote: > > > >> - If you didn't install vim-enhanced, I suggest getting the vim >>source, preferably applying the patches, and compiling it yourself: >> >> > >Why? There would be nothing that we could do to support anything >compiled form source. I attempt to discourage it as much as possible. > > * many (usually hundreds) of bugs from any earlier releases have been fixed if one is using an earlier release * applying patches fixes yet more bugs (currently there are 170 patches to vim 7.1) (admittedly, I didn't specify how to apply patches) * runtime files have been updated (generally to fix bugs) * there are options associated with the configure, such as whether to have ruby, perl, cscope, Sun workshop, etc support compiled in (see configure --help for the list) * if one wants support for vim, there's an active mailing list for it with many knowledgable folks, including vim's author (see http://vim.sf.net/ for details) Regards, Chip Campbell