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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[a001133] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-vim" xreflabel="Vim" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Vim-&vim-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="vim.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim"><primary sortas="a-Vim">Vim</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[5888299] | 13 | <para>The Vim package contains a powerful text editor.</para>
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| 14 |
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[a001133] | 15 | <segmentedlist>
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| 16 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <seglistitem><seg>0.4 SBU</seg><seg>34 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 19 | </segmentedlist>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <segmentedlist>
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| 22 | <segtitle>Vim installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 23 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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| 24 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 25 | </segmentedlist>
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[5888299] | 26 |
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[df8334f] | 27 | <tip>
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[35c2fa60] | 28 | <title>Alternatives to Vim</title>
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[ef13657] | 29 | <para>If you prefer another editor -- like Emacs, Joe, or Nano --
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| 30 | please refer to <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/editors.html"/> for
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[35c2fa60] | 31 | suggested installation instructions.</para>
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[df8334f] | 32 | </tip>
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[35c2fa60] | 33 | </sect2>
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| 34 |
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[a001133] | 35 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 36 | <title>Installation of Vim</title>
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| 37 |
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[b5b61fd] | 38 | <para>First, unpack both
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| 39 | <filename>vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2</filename> and (optionally)
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[ef13657] | 40 | <filename>vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz</filename> archives into the
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| 41 | same directory. Then change the default locations of the
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| 42 | <filename>vimrc</filename> and <filename>gvimrc</filename>
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| 43 | configuration files to <filename
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| 44 | class="directory">/etc</filename>:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 45 |
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| 46 | <screen><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h
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| 47 | echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h</userinput></screen>
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| 48 |
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[ef13657] | 49 | <para>Prepare Vim for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 50 |
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[c3d6ceb] | 51 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 52 |
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[b5b61fd] | 53 | <para>The optional but highly recommended
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[ef13657] | 54 | <parameter>--enable-multibyte</parameter> switch includes support for
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| 55 | editing files in multibyte character encodings into
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| 56 | <command>vim</command>. This is needed if the recommendation was not
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| 57 | heeded to not to use LFS in locales with multibyte character sets.
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| 58 | This switch is also helpful to be able to edit text files initially
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| 59 | created in Linux distributions like Fedora Core that use UTF-8 as a
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| 60 | default character set.</para>
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[dc32fef] | 61 |
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[73aedd1d] | 62 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 65 |
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[673b0d8] | 66 | <para>To test the results, you can issue:
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[ef13657] | 67 | <userinput>make test</userinput>. However, this test suite outputs a
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| 68 | lot of chaotic characters to the screen, which can cause issues with
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| 69 | the settings of the current terminal. Therefore, running the test
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| 70 | suite here is strictly optional.</para>
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[1a73ed4] | 71 |
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[ef13657] | 72 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 73 |
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| 74 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 75 |
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[673b0d8] | 76 | <para>Many users are used to using <command>vi</command>, instead of
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[ef13657] | 77 | <command>vim</command>. To allow execution of <command>vim</command>
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| 78 | when they habitually enter <command>vi</command>, create a
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| 79 | symlink:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 80 |
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| 81 | <screen><userinput>ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen>
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| 82 |
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[ef13657] | 83 | <para>If the X Window system is going to be installed on the LFS
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| 84 | system, it may be necessary to re-compile Vim after installing X. Vim
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| 85 | comes with a GUI version of the editor that requires X and some
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| 86 | additional libraries to be installed. For more information on this
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| 87 | process, refer to the Vim documentation.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 88 |
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| 89 | </sect2>
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[0ba2766b] | 90 |
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[df8334f] | 91 | <sect2 id="conf-vim" role="configuration"><title>Configuring Vim</title>
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[673b0d8] | 92 | <indexterm zone="conf-vim"><primary sortas="e-/etc/vim">/etc/vim</primary></indexterm>
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[342b176] | 93 |
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[ef13657] | 94 | <para>By default, <command>vim</command> runs in vi-incompatible mode.
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| 95 | This may be new to users who have used other editors in the past. The
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| 96 | <quote>nocompatible</quote> setting is included below to highlight the
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| 97 | fact that a new behavior is being used. It also reminds those who
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| 98 | would change to <quote>compatible</quote> mode that it should appear
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| 99 | first. This is necessary because it changes other settings, and
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| 100 | overrides must come after this setting. Create a default vim
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| 101 | configuration file by running the following:</para>
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[342b176] | 102 |
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[8ad7980] | 103 | <screen><userinput>cat > /etc/vimrc << "EOF"
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[342b176] | 104 | " Begin /etc/vimrc
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| 105 |
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| 106 | set nocompatible
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| 107 | set backspace=2
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| 108 | syntax on
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[3e05705] | 109 | if (&term == "iterm") || (&term == "putty")
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| 110 | set background=dark
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| 111 | endif
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[342b176] | 112 |
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| 113 | " End /etc/vimrc
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[8ad7980] | 114 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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[342b176] | 115 |
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[8ad7980] | 116 | <para>The <parameter>set nocompatible</parameter> makes
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[ef13657] | 117 | <command>vim</command> behave in a more useful way (the default) than
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| 118 | the vi-compatible manner. Remove the <quote>no</quote> if you want the
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| 119 | old <command>vi</command> behavior. The <parameter>set
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| 120 | backspace=2</parameter> allows backspacing over line breaks,
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| 121 | autoindents, and the start of insert. The <parameter>syntax
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| 122 | on</parameter> enables vim's syntax highlighting. Finally, the
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| 123 | <parameter>if</parameter> statement with the <parameter>set
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| 124 | background=dark</parameter> corrects <command>vim</command>'s guess
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| 125 | about the background color of some terminal emulators. This gives the
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| 126 | highlighting a better color scheme for use on the black background of
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| 127 | these programs.</para>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <para>Documentation for other available options can be obtained by
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| 130 | running the following command:</para>
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[dc32fef] | 131 |
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| 132 | <screen><userinput>vim -c ':options'</userinput></screen>
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| 133 |
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[342b176] | 134 | </sect2>
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[0ba2766b] | 135 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 136 | <sect2 id="contents-vim" role="content"><title>Contents of Vim</title>
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[673b0d8] | 137 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 138 | <segmentedlist>
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| 139 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 140 | <seglistitem><seg>efm_filter.pl, efm_perl.pl, ex (link to vim), less.sh, mve.awk,
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| 141 | pltags.pl, ref, rview (link to vim), rvim (link to vim), shtags.pl, tcltags, vi (link to vim),
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| 142 | view (link to vim), vim, vim132, vim2html.pl, vimdiff (link to vim), vimm, vimspell.sh,
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| 143 | vimtutor and xxd</seg></seglistitem>
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| 144 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 145 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 146 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[673b0d8] | 147 |
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[b8a819f] | 148 | <varlistentry id="efm_filter.pl">
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| 149 | <term><command>efm_filter.pl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 150 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 151 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim efm_filter.pl"><primary sortas="b-efm_filter.pl">efm_filter.pl</primary></indexterm>
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[ef13657] | 152 | <para>a filter for creating an error file that can be read by <command>vim</command>.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 153 | </listitem>
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| 154 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 155 |
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[b8a819f] | 156 | <varlistentry id="efm_perl.pl">
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| 157 | <term><command>efm_perl.pl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 158 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 159 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim efm_perl.pl"><primary sortas="b-efm_perl.pl">efm_perl.pl</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 160 | <para>reformats the error messages of the
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[8ad7980] | 161 | Perl interpreter for use with the <quote>quickfix</quote> mode of <command>vim</command>.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 162 | </listitem>
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| 163 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 164 |
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[b8a819f] | 165 | <varlistentry id="ex">
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| 166 | <term><command>ex</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 167 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 168 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim ex"><primary sortas="b-ex">ex</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 169 | <para>starts <command>vim</command> in ex mode.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 170 | </listitem>
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| 171 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 172 |
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[b8a819f] | 173 | <varlistentry id="less.sh">
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| 174 | <term><command>less.sh</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 175 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 176 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim less.sh"><primary sortas="b-less.sh">less.sh</primary></indexterm>
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[ef13657] | 177 | <para>a script that starts <command>vim</command> with less.vim.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 178 | </listitem>
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| 179 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 180 |
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[b8a819f] | 181 | <varlistentry id="mve.awk">
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| 182 | <term><command>mve.awk</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 183 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 184 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim mve.awk"><primary sortas="b-mve.awk">mve.awk</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 185 | <para>processes <command>vim</command> errors.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 186 | </listitem>
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| 187 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 188 |
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[b8a819f] | 189 | <varlistentry id="pltags.pl">
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| 190 | <term><command>pltags.pl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 191 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 192 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim pltags.pl"><primary sortas="b-pltags.pl">pltags.pl</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 193 | <para>creates a tags file for Perl code, for use by <command>vim</command>.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 194 | </listitem>
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| 195 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 196 |
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[b8a819f] | 197 | <varlistentry id="ref">
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| 198 | <term><command>ref</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 199 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 200 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim ref"><primary sortas="b-ref">ref</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 201 | <para>checks the spelling of arguments.</para>
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| 202 | </listitem>
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| 203 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 204 |
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[b8a819f] | 205 | <varlistentry id="rview">
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| 206 | <term><command>rview</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 207 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 208 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim rview"><primary sortas="b-rview">rview</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 209 | <para>is a restricted version of <command>view</command>: no shell
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[ef13657] | 210 | commands can be started and <command>view</command> cannot be suspended.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 211 | </listitem>
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| 212 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 213 |
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[b8a819f] | 214 | <varlistentry id="rvim">
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| 215 | <term><command>rvim</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 216 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 217 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim rvim"><primary sortas="b-rvim">rvim</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 218 | <para>is a restricted version of <command>vim</command>: no shell
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[ef13657] | 219 | commands can be started and <command>vim</command> cannot be suspended.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 220 | </listitem>
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| 221 | </varlistentry>
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[73aedd1d] | 222 |
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[b8a819f] | 223 | <varlistentry id="shtags.pl">
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| 224 | <term><command>shtags.pl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 225 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 226 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim shtags.pl"><primary sortas="b-shtags.pl">shtags.pl</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 227 | <para>generates a tag file for Perl scripts.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 228 | </listitem>
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| 229 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 230 |
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[b8a819f] | 231 | <varlistentry id="tcltags">
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| 232 | <term><command>tcltags</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 233 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 234 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim tcltags"><primary sortas="b-tcltags">tcltags</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 235 | <para>generates a tag file for TCL code.</para>
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| 236 | </listitem>
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| 237 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 238 |
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[b8a819f] | 239 | <varlistentry id="view">
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| 240 | <term><command>view</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 241 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 242 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim view"><primary sortas="b-view">view</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 243 | <para>starts <command>vim</command> in read-only mode.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 244 | </listitem>
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| 245 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 246 |
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[b8a819f] | 247 | <varlistentry id="vim">
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| 248 | <term><command>vim</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 249 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 250 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim"><primary sortas="b-vim">vim</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 251 | <para>is the editor.</para>
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| 252 | </listitem>
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| 253 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 254 |
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[b8a819f] | 255 | <varlistentry id="vim132">
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| 256 | <term><command>vim132</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 257 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 258 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim132"><primary sortas="b-vim132">vim132</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 259 | <para>starts <command>vim</command> with the terminal in 132-column mode.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 260 | </listitem>
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| 261 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 262 |
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[b8a819f] | 263 | <varlistentry id="vim2html.pl">
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| 264 | <term><command>vim2html.pl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 265 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 266 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim2html.pl"><primary sortas="b-vim2html.pl">vim2html.pl</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 267 | <para>converts Vim documentation to HTML.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 268 | </listitem>
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| 269 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 270 |
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[b8a819f] | 271 | <varlistentry id="vimdiff">
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| 272 | <term><command>vimdiff</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 273 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 274 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimdiff"><primary sortas="b-vimdiff">vimdiff</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 275 | <para>edits two or three versions of a file with <command>vim</command> and show differences.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 276 | </listitem>
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| 277 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 278 |
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[b8a819f] | 279 | <varlistentry id="vimm">
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| 280 | <term><command>vimm</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 281 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 282 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimm"><primary sortas="b-vimm">vimm</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 283 | <para>enables the DEC locator input model on a remote terminal.</para>
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| 284 | </listitem>
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| 285 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 286 |
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[b8a819f] | 287 | <varlistentry id="vimspell.sh">
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| 288 | <term><command>vimspell.sh</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 289 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 290 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimspell.sh"><primary sortas="b-vimspell.sh">vimspell.sh</primary></indexterm>
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[ef13657] | 291 | <para>a script which spells a file and generates the syntax statements necessary
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[8ad7980] | 292 | to highlight in <command>vim</command>. This script requires the old Unix <command>spell</command>
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[c6cb3aa] | 293 | command, which is provided neither in LFS nor in BLFS.</para>
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| 294 | </listitem>
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| 295 | </varlistentry>
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| 296 |
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[b8a819f] | 297 | <varlistentry id="vimtutor">
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| 298 | <term><command>vimtutor</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 299 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 300 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimtutor"><primary sortas="b-vimtutor">vimtutor</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 301 | <para>teaches you the basic keys and commands of <command>vim</command>.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 302 | </listitem>
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| 303 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 304 |
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[b8a819f] | 305 | <varlistentry id="xxd">
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| 306 | <term><command>xxd</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 307 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 308 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim xxd"><primary sortas="b-xxd">xxd</primary></indexterm>
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[ef13657] | 309 | <para>creates a hex dump of the given file. It can
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[673b0d8] | 310 | also do the reverse, so it can be used for binary patching.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 311 | </listitem>
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| 312 | </varlistentry>
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| 313 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 314 |
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| 315 | </sect2>
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| 316 |
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| 317 | </sect1>
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[ef13657] | 318 |
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