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-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml3
-rw-r--r--chapter06/vim.xml12
-rw-r--r--general.ent4
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 1e9d2b98e..67c9eacdf 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
+<listitem><para>June 16, 2004 [alexander]: Removed the fileencodinfs line from
+the /etc/vimrc file because of a bug</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Corrected installation of Readline.
</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml
index 87342421a..7b978ffc7 100644
--- a/chapter06/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter06/vim.xml
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ the following:</para>
set nocompatible
set backspace=2
syntax on
-set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable>
+<!-- set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable> -->
if (&amp;term == "iterm") || (&amp;term == "putty")
set background=dark
endif
@@ -119,7 +119,11 @@ vi-compatible manner. Remove the "no" if you want the old <command>vi</command>
behavior. The <emphasis>set backspace=2</emphasis> allows
backspacing over line breaks, autoindents and the start of insert. The
<emphasis>syntax on</emphasis> enables <command>vim</command>'s
-syntax highliting. The <emphasis>set fileencodings=...</emphasis> makes
+syntax highliting.
+<!-- XXX: the ascii-only files are considered to be in utf-8 - that's not what
+one expects . That's why fileencodings stuff is commented out for now
+
+The <emphasis>set fileencodings=...</emphasis> makes
<command>vim</command> capable of automatically detecting the character
set of the file being edited (replace
"<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable>"
@@ -127,8 +131,8 @@ with the value appropriate for your country, e.g. iso-8859-15 in Italy).
This line is useful because bleeding-edge distributions
like Fedora Core use UTF-8, and conservative ones like Debian
use traditional 8-bit encodings for text files. If you have not
-passed the <option>--enable-multibyte</option> switch to the
-<command>./configure</command> command above, this line will not work.
+passed the <option>- -enable-multibyte</option> switch to the
+<command>./configure</command> command above, this line will not work. -->
Finally, the <emphasis>if</emphasis> statement with the
<emphasis>set background=dark</emphasis> corrects <command>vim</command>'s
guess about the background color of some terminal emulators. This gives the
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 45a7db6e8..b0d98acd0 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "CVS-20040615">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "June 15, 2004">
+<!ENTITY version "CVS-20040616">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "June 16, 2004">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.0">
<!ENTITY lfs-root "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/">