1 | <sect1 id="ch-system-vim" xreflabel="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 | <para>The Vim package contains a powerful text editor.</para>
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6 |
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7 | <screen>&buildtime; &vim-time;
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8 | &diskspace; &vim-compsize;</screen>
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9 |
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10 | &aa-vim-down;
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11 | &aa-vim-dep;
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12 |
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13 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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14 |
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15 | <sect2>
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16 | <title>Alternatives to Vim</title>
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17 | <para>If you prefer another editor -- like Emacs, Joe, or Nano -- to Vim,
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18 | have a look at <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/editors.html"/> for
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19 | suggested installation instructions.</para>
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20 | </sect2>
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21 |
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22 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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23 |
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24 | <sect2>
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25 | <title>Installation of Vim</title>
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26 |
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27 | <para>First change the default locations of the <filename>vimrc</filename> and
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28 | <filename>gvimrc</filename> files to <filename
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29 | class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
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30 |
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31 | <screen><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h
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32 | echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h</userinput></screen>
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33 |
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34 | <para>Now prepare Vim for compilation:</para>
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35 |
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36 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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37 |
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38 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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39 |
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40 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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41 |
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42 | <para>To have the results tested, you can issue:
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43 | <userinput>make check</userinput>. However, this test suite outputs a lot of
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44 | seemingly garbage characters to the screen, and this can wreak havoc with the
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45 | settings of the current terminal. Accordingly, the running of the test suite
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46 | here is strictly optional.</para>
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47 |
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48 | <para>And install the package:</para>
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49 |
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50 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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51 |
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52 | <para>When called as <command>vi</command>, <command>vim</command>
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53 | will run in old-fashioned vi-mode. To allow this, create a symlink:</para>
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54 |
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55 | <screen><userinput>ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen>
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56 |
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57 | <para>If you are going to install the X Window system on your LFS system, you
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58 | may want to re-compile Vim after having installed X. Vim comes with a nice GUI
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59 | version of the editor that requires X and a few other libraries to be
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60 | installed. For more information read the Vim documentation.</para>
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61 |
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62 | </sect2>
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63 |
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64 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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65 |
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66 | <sect2><title>Configuring Vim</title>
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67 |
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68 | <para>By default, <command>vim</command> runs in vi-compatible mode. Some
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69 | people might like this, but we prefer to run <command>vim</command> in its
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70 | own mode (else we wouldn't have included it in this book, but the original
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71 | <command>vi</command>). Create a default vim configuration file by running
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72 | the following:</para>
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73 |
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74 | <screen><userinput>cat > /etc/vimrc << "EOF"</userinput>
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75 | " Begin /etc/vimrc
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76 |
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77 | set nocompatible
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78 | set backspace=2
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79 | syntax on
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80 |
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81 | " End /etc/vimrc
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82 | <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
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83 |
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84 | <para>The <emphasis>set nocompatible</emphasis> will make
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85 | <command>vim</command> behave in a more useful way than the default
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86 | vi-compatible manner. The <emphasis>set backspace=2</emphasis> allows
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87 | backspacing over line breaks, autoindent and the start of insert. And the
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88 | <emphasis>syntax on</emphasis> switches on <command>vim</command>'s
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89 | semantic colouring.</para>
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90 |
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91 | </sect2>
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92 |
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93 | &aa-vim-shortdesc;
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94 | &aa-vim-desc;
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95 |
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96 | </sect1>
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97 |
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