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1<sect1 id="ch-system-vim" xreflabel="Vim">
2<title>Installing Vim-&vim-version;</title>
3<?dbhtml filename="vim.html" dir="chapter06"?>
4
5<para>The Vim package contains a powerful text editor.</para>
6
7<screen>&buildtime; &vim-time;
8&diskspace; &vim-compsize;</screen>
9
10&aa-vim-down;
11&aa-vim-dep;
12
13<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
14
15<sect2>
16<title>Alternatives to Vim</title>
17<para>If you prefer another editor -- like Emacs, Joe, or Nano -- to Vim,
18have a look at <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/editors.html"/> for
19suggested installation instructions.</para>
20</sect2>
21
22<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
23
24<sect2>
25<title>Installation of Vim</title>
26
27<para>First change the default locations of the <filename>vimrc</filename> and
28<filename>gvimrc</filename> files to <filename
29class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
30
31<screen><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h
32echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h</userinput></screen>
33
34<para>Now prepare Vim for compilation:</para>
35
36<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
37
38<para>Compile the package:</para>
39
40<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
41
42<para>To have the results tested, you can issue:
43<userinput>make check</userinput>. However, this test suite outputs a lot of
44seemingly garbage characters to the screen, and this can wreak havoc with the
45settings of the current terminal. Accordingly, the running of the test suite
46here is strictly optional.</para>
47
48<para>And install the package:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
51
52<para>When called as <command>vi</command>, <command>vim</command>
53will run in old-fashioned vi-mode. To allow this, create a symlink:</para>
54
55<screen><userinput>ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen>
56
57<para>If you are going to install the X Window system on your LFS system, you
58may want to re-compile Vim after having installed X. Vim comes with a nice GUI
59version of the editor that requires X and a few other libraries to be
60installed. For more information read the Vim documentation.</para>
61
62</sect2>
63
64&c6-cf-vim;
65
66&aa-vim-shortdesc;
67&aa-vim-desc;
68
69</sect1>
70
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