source: chapter06/vim.xml@ 3f0c882

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<sect1 id="ch-system-vim" xreflabel="Vim" role="wrap">
<title>Vim-&vim-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-vim"><primary sortas="a-Vim">Vim</primary></indexterm>

<sect2 role="package"><title/>

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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.4 SBU</seg><seg>34 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Vim</title>

<para>Change the default locations of the configuration files:</para>

<screen><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h
echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h</userinput></screen>

<para>Now prepare Vim for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make test</userinput></para>

<para>Now install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

<para>Create a symlink:</para>

<screen><userinput>ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="conf-vim" role="configuration"><title>Configuring Vim</title>

<para>Create a default vim configuration file by running
the following:</para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/vimrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
" Begin /etc/vimrc

set nocompatible
set backspace=2
syntax on
<!-- set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,<replaceable>[your-8-bit-charset]</replaceable> -->
if (&amp;term == "iterm") || (&amp;term == "putty")
  set background=dark
endif

" End /etc/vimrc
EOF</userinput></screen>

<!-- XXX: the ascii-only files are considered to be in utf-8 - that's not what
one expects . That's why fileencodings stuff is commented out for now

The <parameter>set fileencodings=...</parameter> makes
<command>vim</command> capable of automatically detecting the character
set of the file being edited (replace
"<replaceable>[your-8-bit-charset]</replaceable>"
with the value appropriate for your country, e.g. iso-8859-15 in Italy).
This line is useful because bleeding-edge distributions
like Fedora Core use UTF-8, and conservative ones like Debian
use traditional 8-bit encodings for text files. If you have not
passed the <parameter>- -enable-multibyte</parameter> switch to the
<command>./configure</command> command above, this line will not work. -->

<para>Documentation for other available options can be obtained by running
the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput>vim -c ':options'</userinput></screen>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="contents-vim" role="content"><title>Contents of Vim</title>

<para>See testing</para>

</sect2>

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