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JohnMurga · Last edited by JohnMurga on Mon 09 May 2005, 02:01; edited 1 time in total

Hey

I have had serious computer problems tonight and haven't had time to test these propperly with Puppy... I post them in case anyone wants to play with them.

They should all the untarred at "/".

Cheers
JohnM

JohnMurga · Posted: Mon 09 May 2005, 01:59 Post subject:

And another two ...

<VIM FIXED>

Ian · Posted: Mon 09 May 2005, 19:49 Post subject:

John, I've downloaded perl but cant untar it into /, can't write to /usr.

I tried in in both a pen drive and a Windows install.

JohnMurga · Posted: Mon 09 May 2005, 20:06 Post subject:

Hey

I chatted to Ian, the reason why he was having problems is that you need Puppy 1.0.1 or above with UnionFS to do this Wink

Cheers
JohnM

Alienx · Posted: Mon 09 May 2005, 20:17 Post subject:

these packs are interesting, they must be pupgeted... Rolling Eyes

someone, please... Wink

JohnMurga · Posted: Tue 10 May 2005, 00:06 Post subject:

This something I found ... Again I haven't tried it yet.

<SLIM PYTHON DIDN'T WORK AT ALL, BUT I HAVE THE BUILD FILES AND WILL TRY TO RE-BUILD>

Cheers
JohnM[/i]

Alienx · Posted: Tue 10 May 2005, 05:44 Post subject:

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JohnMurga · Posted: Tue 10 May 2005, 09:19 Post subject:

I finally solved my computer problems last night, so I'll be able to test these tonight.

VIM is the only one that I hadn't even managed to at least run.

Sorry about that

Cheers
JohnM

jack · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 7

what exactly do you want vim to do?
I have vim loaded and it has most of the vi functionality.

This is the package i used

vim_6.3-071+1sarge1_i386.deb

I did have to download the undeb dotpup.

Jack

jack · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 7

sorry forgot to say I am running puppy 2.02

Jack

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4639 Location: Manila

Slim Python will be great!

fitzhugh · Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 216 Location: Berkeley

Hi - been away from forum for over a month due to move and ensuing lack of internet, playing catch up. In case anyone is still having trouble with vim, I found it rather easy to get running a couple of months ago and use it all the time... I totally dig it! One of you wrote above that vim has most of vi functionality: it actually has many times what vi has! I have been one of those odd vi crazy folk for years now, mostly because I got sick of emacs years ago and never wanted to try and learn a third editor, finally tried vim because vi was hosed on puppy... can't believe I waited all this time. I don't recall the details of how I installed... I believe I compiled from scratch, so there may well be an easier way. However, if anyone is having trouble I'll review what I did and write up the steps, assuming the possibly easier way above doesn't work for them.

The most important thing once you get it running is setting up decent .vimrc and .gvimrc files that suit your needs. They can just be dropped in your home directory and will load when you start vim or gvim (which is vim with a graphical interface). There are some great and highly comprehensive examples online, a few are on my delicious page: http://del.icio.us/fitzhugh/vim I'll post some specific good ones if anyone wants them and will include mine here as examples as well - mine are both highly based on examples I found online. The help files also have a great deal of info on configuring these.
Oh, there is also a wikibook on vi/vim (see delicious link above), and for those new to vi and/or vim, there is a tutorial included in the help files that is very useful.

Enough already!

Lobster · Posted: Fri 29 Sep 2006, 09:36 Post subject:

Welcome back,

Hope the move went OK. Cool