| 1 | <sect1 id="ch06-vim">
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| 2 | <title>Installing Vim-&vim-version;</title>
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| 3 | <?dbhtml filename="vim.html" dir="chapter06"?>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <screen>Estimated build time: &vim-time;
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| 6 | Estimated required disk space: &vim-compsize;</screen>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect2>
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| 9 | <title>Alternatives to Vim</title>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <para>If you prefer another editor -- like Emacs, Joe, or Nano -- to Vim,
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| 12 | have a look at <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/editors.html"/> for
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| 13 | suggested installation instructions.</para>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | </sect2>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | &aa-vim-shortdesc;
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| 18 | &aa-vim-dep;
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Installation of Vim</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>First change the default locations of the <filename>vimrc</filename> and
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| 26 | <filename>gvimrc</filename> files to <filename
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| 27 | class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <screen><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h
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| 30 | echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h</userinput></screen>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>Now prepare Vim for compilation:</para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>This package has a test suite available which performs a number of
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| 41 | checks to ensure it will function correctly. However, the Vim test suite will
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| 42 | output a whole lot of seemingly garbage characters to screen which can
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| 43 | sometimes wreak havoc with the running terminal. Accordingly, the running of
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| 44 | the test suite here is optional. Should you choose to run the Vim test suite,
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| 45 | the following command will do so:</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para>And install the package:</para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <para>When called as <userinput>vi</userinput>, <userinput>vim</userinput>
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| 54 | will run in old-fashioned vi-mode. To allow this, create a symlink:</para>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <screen><userinput>ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <para>If you are going to install the X Window system on your LFS system, you
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| 59 | may want to re-compile Vim after having installed X. Vim comes with a nice GUI
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| 60 | version of the editor that requires X and a few other libraries to be
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| 61 | installed. For more information read the Vim documentation.</para>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | </sect2>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | &c6-cf-vim;
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| 66 |
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| 67 | </sect1>
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| 68 |
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