source: postlfs/editors/vim.xml@ f716ef4

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  %general-entities;

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  <!ENTITY vim-download-http "http://ftp.vim.org/vim/unix/vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2">-->
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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>

    <note>
      <para>
        The version of vim changes daily.  The get the latest 
        version, go to <ulink url="https://github.com/vim/vim/releases">
        https://github.com/vim/vim/releases</ulink>.
      </para>
    </note>

    &lfs91_checked;

    <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">Vim Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/> and
      <xref linkend="gtk3"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gpm"/>,
      <xref linkend="lua"/>,
      <xref linkend="python2"/>,
      <xref linkend="rsync"/>,
      <xref linkend="ruby"/>, and
      <xref linkend="tcl"/>
    </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>
      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 \
            --enable-gui=gtk3    \
            --with-tlib=ncursesw &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 log will report
      <literal>ALL DONE</literal>.  <emphasis>Note</emphasis>: Some color
      tests expect to be executed under the <command>xterm</command> terminal
      emulator. Three tests are known to fail occasionally and can be ignored.
    </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 vim-majmin entity for the 
     proper 'vimxx' unpacked directory -->

<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -snfv ../vim/vim&vim-majmin;/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 --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>
      <parameter>--with-features=huge</parameter>: This switch enables all
      the additional features available in <application>Vim</application>,
      including support for multibyte characters.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--with-tlib=ncursesw</parameter>: This switch forces Vim to
      link against the <filename class="libraryfile">libncursesw</filename>
      library.
    </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-desktop'>
      <title>Desktop File</title>

      <para>
        If desired, create a menu entry for graphical vim,
        <filename>gvim.desktop</filename>, as the <systemitem
        class="username">root</systemitem> user
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/gvim.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>[Desktop Entry]
Name=GVim Text Editor
Comment=Edit text files
Comment[pt_BR]=Edite arquivos de texto
TryExec=gvim
Exec=gvim -f %F
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=gvim.png
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=text/plain;</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

    </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/vim&vim-majmin;/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://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Example_vimrc'/>.
      </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, gvimtutor, 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="gvimtutor">
        <term><command>gvimtutor</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            teaches the basic keys and commands of
            <command>gvim</command>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="vim gvimtutor">
            <primary sortas="b-gvimtutor">gvimtutor</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>