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From: Edward Catmur <ed@×××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] vim 7 beta
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:05:11
Message-Id: 1143306029.18825.6.camel@capella.catmur.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] vim 7 beta by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:28 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > As of now, vim 7 alpha is unsupported and should no longer be used. For
3 > those of you who don't think I'm a "security risk", there're vim 7 beta
4 > ebuilds at:
5 >
6 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/vim-beta-overlay.tar.bz2
7 >
8 > Note that this includes an eclass update, and eclasses and overlays
9 > don't mix particularly nicely. If you don't know what you're doing,
10 > don't use it.
11
12 Nice. Minor issue: the tarball is not currently suitable for use as an
13 overlay, because it doesn't include the completion, vimrc, xpm, .desktop
14 files etc. in FILESDIR. Copying them over from the gentoo.org tree
15 works.
16
17 > The new vimrc should hopefully work nicely with TERM=gnome, but I don't
18 > plan to install Gnome to find out (bug #122562).
19
20 Yes, it works fine.
21
22 Ed
23
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