Error Detected report from vi(vim) **SOLVED**

[Jay Ridgley]

On 02/01/2011 12:13:59 +0200 Marius Gedminas wrote:
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:13:59 +0200
> From: Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Error Detected report from vi(vim)
> Message-ID: <20110201101359.GA5179 at fridge.pov.lt>
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> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:52:42PM -0600, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > One of the systems that I recently upgraded to 10.04.1LTS has begun
>> > to report the following at start up:
>> >
>> > Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim72/debian.vim:
>> > line   42:
>> > E518: Unknown option: following:
>> > Press ENTER or type command to continue.
>> >
>> > Pressing enter seems to allow it to continue without problems. At
>> > least I have not seen any in my files.
>> >
>> > The version of VIM is:  version 7.2.330
>> >
>> > What could be causing this?
> Filesystem corruption?  Try debsums vim-common to check if the file
> /usr/share/vim/vim72/debian.vim has the correct checksum.
>
> On my 10.04 LTS server line 42 of debian.vim reads
>
>   exe "set printoptions+=paper:" . s:papersize
>
> so it could be an incorrect /etc/papersize setting as well.  What's the
> content of that file?  Valid choices are "a4" or "letter".
>
> Marius Gedminas

Thanks..

In 2008 I had changed /etc/papersize from A4 to letter and had placed a comment 
in the file stating that I had done so. Removed the comment and everything is 
OK. Interesting it took this long for it to be a problem...

Cheers,
Jay




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Jay Ridgley
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