source: postlfs/editors/vim.xml@ 88a2276

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY vim-download-http "http://ftp.at.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY vim-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY vim-md5sum        "774c14d93ce58674b3b2c880edd12d77">
  <!ENTITY vim-size          "3.6 MB">
  <!ENTITY vim-buildsize     "41 MB">
  <!ENTITY vim-time          "0.6 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="vim" xreflabel="Vim-&vim-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="vim.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
    <keywordset>
      <keyword role="package">vim-&vim-version;.tar</keyword>
      <keyword role="ftpdir">vim</keyword>
    </keywordset>
  </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>Translated Vim messages: <ulink
        url="http://ftp.at.vim.org/pub/vim/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"/>,
    <xref linkend="lesstif"/>,
    <xref linkend="python"/>,
    <xref linkend="tcl"/>,
    <xref linkend="ruby"/>, and
    <xref linkend="gpm"/></para>

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

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

    <para>In UTF-8 locales, the <command>vimtutor</command> program tries to
    convert the tutorials from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. Since some tutorials are
    not in ISO-8859-1, the text in them is thus made unreadable. If you
    unpacked the <filename>vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz</filename> archive and
    are going to use a UTF-8 based locale, remove non-ISO-8859-1 tutorials.  An
    English tutorial will be used instead.</para>
                        
<screen><userinput>rm -f /usr/share/vim/vim64/tutor/tutor.{gr,pl,ru,sk}
rm -f /usr/share/vim/vim64/tutor/tutor.??.*</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

    <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 nice eye-candy such as updating the
    title bar of an <application>Xterm</application> window are available.</para>
    
    <para><option>--without-x</option>: If you prefer not to link
    <application>Vim</application> against <application>X</application>, use
    this switch.</para>

  </sect2>

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

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