Changeset 69993f4 for chapter06/vim.xml

Timestamp:

08/29/2004 06:36:34 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

6.0

Children:

8b320e7

Parents:

ec0a37e6

Message:

Second round of edits for final release

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/testing/BOOK@4066 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/vim.xml (modified) (14 diffs)

chapter06/vim.xml

@@ -22 +22 @@
 <segtitle>Vim installation depends on</segtitle>
 <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
-GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
+GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
 </segmentedlist>
 
 <tip>
 <title>Alternatives to Vim</title>
-<para>If you prefer another editor -- like Emacs, Joe, or Nano --
-please refer to <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/editors.html"/> for
-suggested installation instructions.</para>
+<para>If you prefer another editor&mdash;such as Emacs, Joe, or
+Nano&mdash;please refer to <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/editors.html"/>
+for suggested installation instructions.</para>
 </tip>
 </sect2>
@@ -39 +39 @@
 <filename>vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2</filename> and (optionally)
 <filename>vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz</filename> archives into the
-same directory. Then change the default locations of the
+same directory. Then, change the default locations of the
 <filename>vimrc</filename> and <filename>gvimrc</filename>
 configuration files to <filename
@@ -54 +54 @@
 <parameter>--enable-multibyte</parameter> switch includes support for
 editing files in multibyte character encodings into
-<command>vim</command>.  This is needed if you are using a locale with
+<command>vim</command>.  This is needed if using a locale with
 a multibyte character set. This switch is also helpful to be able to
 edit text files initially created in Linux distributions like Fedora
@@ -63 +63 @@
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>To test the results, you can issue:
+<para>To test the results, issue:
 <userinput>make test</userinput>. However, this test suite outputs a
 lot of chaotic characters to the screen, which can cause issues with
 the settings of the current terminal. Therefore, running the test
-suite here is strictly optional.</para>
+suite here is optional.</para>
 
 <para>Install the package:</para>
@@ -73 +73 @@
 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>Many users are used to using <command>vi</command>, instead of
+<para>Many users are used to using <command>vi</command> instead of
 <command>vim</command>. To allow execution of <command>vim</command>
-when they habitually enter <command>vi</command>, create a
+when users habitually enter <command>vi</command>, create a
 symlink:</para>
 
@@ -81 +81 @@
 
 <para>If the X Window system is going to be installed on the LFS
-system, it may be necessary to re-compile Vim after installing X. Vim
+system, it may be necessary to recompile Vim after installing X. Vim
 comes with a GUI version of the editor that requires X and some
 additional libraries to be installed. For more information on this
@@ -118 +118 @@
 <para>The <parameter>set nocompatible</parameter> makes
 <command>vim</command> behave in a more useful way (the default) than
-the vi-compatible manner. Remove the <quote>no</quote> if you want the
+the vi-compatible manner. Remove the <quote>no</quote> to keep the 
 old <command>vi</command> behavior. The <parameter>set
 backspace=2</parameter> allows backspacing over line breaks,
@@ -143 +143 @@
 pltags.pl, ref, rview (link to vim), rvim (link to vim), shtags.pl, tcltags, vi (link to vim), 
 view (link to vim), vim, vim132, vim2html.pl, vimdiff (link to vim), vimm, vimspell.sh, 
-vimtutor and xxd</seg></seglistitem>
+vimtutor, and xxd</seg></seglistitem>
 </segmentedlist>
 
@@ -193 +193 @@
 <term><command>pltags.pl</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>creates a tags file for Perl code, for use by <command>vim</command>.</para>
+<para>creates a tags file for Perl code for use by <command>vim</command>.</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim pltags.pl"><primary sortas="b-pltags.pl">pltags.pl</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>
@@ -209 +209 @@
 <term><command>rview</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>is a restricted version of <command>view</command>: no shell
+<para>is a restricted version of <command>view</command>. No shell
 commands can be started and <command>view</command> cannot be suspended.</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim rview"><primary sortas="b-rview">rview</primary></indexterm>
@@ -218 +218 @@
 <term><command>rvim</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>is a restricted version of <command>vim</command>: no shell
+<para>is a restricted version of <command>vim</command>. No shell
 commands can be started and <command>vim</command> cannot be suspended.</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim rvim"><primary sortas="b-rvim">rvim</primary></indexterm>
@@ -267 +267 @@
 <term><command>vim2html.pl</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>converts Vim documentation to HTML.</para>
+<para>converts Vim documentation to HypterText Markup Language (HTML).</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim2html.pl"><primary sortas="b-vim2html.pl">vim2html.pl</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>
@@ -291 +291 @@
 <term><command>vimspell.sh</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>a script which spells a file and generates the syntax statements necessary 
+<para>spells a file and generates the syntax statements necessary 
 to highlight in <command>vim</command>. This script requires the old Unix <command>spell</command>
 command, which is provided neither in LFS nor in BLFS.</para>
@@ -301 +301 @@
 <term><command>vimtutor</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>teaches you the basic keys and commands of <command>vim</command>.</para>
+<para>teaches the basic keys and commands of <command>vim</command>.</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimtutor"><primary sortas="b-vimtutor">vimtutor</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>