source: postlfs/editors/vim.xml@ 62431cb3

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  <!ENTITY vim-md5sum        "f0901284b338e448bfd79ccca0041254">
  <!ENTITY vim-size          "7.2 MB">
  <!ENTITY vim-buildsize     "75 MB">
  <!ENTITY vim-time          "0.8 SBU">
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<sect1 id="vim" xreflabel="Vim-&vim-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="vim.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Vim-&vim-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="vim">
    <primary sortas="a-Vim">Vim</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Vim</title>

    <para>The <application>Vim</application> package, which is an
    abbreviation for VI IMproved, contains a <command>vi</command>
    clone with extra features as compared to the original
    <command>vi</command>.</para>

    <para>The default LFS instructions install <application>vim</application>
    as a part of the base system. If you would prefer to link
    <application>vim</application> against <application>X</application>,
    you should recompile <application>vim</application> to enable GUI mode.
    There is no need for special instructions since
    <application>X</application> support is automatically detected.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&vim-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&vim-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &vim-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &vim-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &vim-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &vim-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required Patch: <ulink
          url="&patch-root;/vim-&vim-version;-fixes-5.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Translated Vim messages: <ulink
         url="http://www2.nl.vim.org/extra/vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz"/>
      </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Vim Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="x-window-system"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/> or
      <xref linkend="lesstif"/>
      <xref linkend="python"/>,
      <xref linkend="tcl"/>,
      <xref linkend="ruby"/>, and
      <xref linkend="gpm"/>
    </para>
    <!-- mentioned below as a runtime dependency
    <xref linkend="rsync"/> (to update the runtime files)
    -->

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vim"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Vim</title>

    <note>
      <para>If you recompile <application>Vim</application> to link against
      <application>X</application> and your <application>X</application>
      libraries are not on the root partition, you will no longer have an editor
      for use in emergencies. You may choose to install an additional editor,
      not link <application>Vim</application> against
      <application>X</application>, or move the current <command>vim</command>
      executable to the <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> directory
      under a different name such as <filename>vi</filename>.</para>
    </note>

    <para>If desired, unpack the translated messages archive:</para>

<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz --strip-components=1</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install <application>Vim</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../vim-&vim-version;-fixes-5.patch &amp;&amp;
echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h &amp;&amp;
echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make test</command>.
    The <application>vim</application> test suite outputs a lot of binary
    data to the screen, which can cause issues with the settings of the
    current terminal. This can be resolved by redirecting the output to a
    log file. Even if one of the tests fails to produce the file
    <filename>test.out</filename> in <filename
    class="directory">src/testdir</filename>, the remaining tests will still
    be executed. If all goes well,the final message in the log file will be
    <literal>ALL DONE</literal>. <emphasis>Note</emphasis>: Some color tests
    expect to be executed under the <command>xterm</command> terminal
    emulator.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>By default, Vim's documentation is installed in <filename
    class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>.  The following symlink allows
    the documentation to be accessed via <filename
    class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>, making it
    consistent with the location of documentation for other packages:</para>

<!-- When updating, be sure to change the line below for the proper 'vimxx' unpacked
     directory -->

<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -snfv ../vim/vim72/doc /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you wish to update the runtime files, issue the
    following command (requires <xref linkend="rsync"/>):</para>

<screen><userinput>rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="/dos/" --exclude="/spell/" \
    ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ ./runtime/</userinput></screen>

    <para>To install the runtime files and regenerate the
    <filename>tags</filename> file, as the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user issue:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C src installruntime &amp;&amp;
vim -c ":helptags /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;" -c ":q"</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>patch &hellip;</command>: These patches are the same as the
    ones in the LFS build used to update the package with upstream patches
    and ensure the man pages are placed in the proper locations.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-features=huge</parameter>: This switch enables all
    the additional features available in <application>Vim</application>.</para>

    <para><option>--enable-gui=no</option>: This will prevent compilation of the
    GUI. <application>Vim</application> will still link against
    <application>X</application>, so that some features such as the client-server
    model or the x11-selection (clipboard) are still available.</para>

    <para><option>--without-x</option>: If you prefer not to link
    <application>Vim</application> against <application>X</application>, use
    this switch.</para>

    <para><option>--enable-perlinterp</option>, <option>--enable-pythoninterp</option>,
    <option>--enable-tclinterp</option>, <option>--enable-rubyinterp</option>:
    These options include the Perl, Python, Tcl, or Ruby interpreters that allow
    using other application code in <application>vim</application> scripts.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Vim</title>

    <sect3 id='vim-config'>
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>/etc/vimrc</filename> and
      <filename>~/.vimrc</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="vim vim-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-vimrc">/etc/vimrc</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="vim vim-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.vimrc">~/.vimrc</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3 id='vim-init'>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para><application>Vim</application> has an integrated spell checker
      which you can enable it if you issue the following in a vim window:
      </para>

<screen><literal>:setlocal spell spelllang=ru</literal></screen>

      <para>This setting will enable spell checking for the Russian
      language for the current session.</para>

      <para>By default, <application>Vim</application> only installs spell
      files for the English language. If a spell file is not available for
      a language, then <application>Vim</application> will call the
      <filename>$VIMRUNTIME/plugin/spellfile.vim</filename> plugin and will try
      to obtain the *.spl and optionally *.sug from the vim ftp server,
      by using the <filename>$VIMRUNTIME/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim</filename>
      plugin.</para>

<!-- When updating, be sure to change the line below for the proper 'vimxx' unpacked
     directory -->
      <para>Alternatively you can manually download the *.spl and *.sug files
      from: <ulink url="ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/"/> and save
      them to <filename class="directory"> ~/.vim/spell </filename> or in
      <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim72/spell/</filename>.</para>

      <para>To find out what's new in <application>Vim-&vim-version;</application>
      issue the following command:</para>

<screen><literal>:help version-&vim-version;</literal></screen>

      <para>For additional information on setting up
      <application>Vim</application> configuration files, see <xref
      linkend="postlfs-config-vimrc"/> and <ulink
      url='http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.php'/>.</para>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <para>A list of the reinstalled files, along with their short
    descriptions can be found in the <ulink
    url="&lfs-root;/chapter06/vim.html#contents-vim">LFS Vim Installation
    Instructions</ulink></para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gview, gvim, gvimdiff, rgview, and rgvim</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/vim</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gview">
        <term><command>gview</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>starts <command>gvim</command> in read-only mode.</para>
          <indexterm zone="vim gview">
            <primary sortas="b-gview">gview</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gvim">
        <term><command>gvim</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the editor that runs under <application>X</application>
          and includes a GUI.</para>
          <indexterm zone="vim gvim">
            <primary sortas="b-gvim">gvim</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gvimdiff">
        <term><command>gvimdiff</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>edits two or three versions of a file with
          <command>gvim</command> and shows the differences.</para>
          <indexterm zone="vim gvimdiff">
            <primary sortas="b-gvimdiff">gvimdiff</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rgview">
        <term><command>rgview</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a restricted version of <command>gview</command>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="vim rgview">
            <primary sortas="b-rgview">rgview</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rgvim">
        <term><command>rgvim</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a restricted version of <command>gvim</command>. </para>
          <indexterm zone="vim gvim">
            <primary sortas="b-gvim">gvim</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>