Changeset b5b61fd for chapter06/vim.xml

Timestamp:

06/10/2004 08:18:07 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Alexander E. Patrakov <alexander@…>

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Children:

3546862

Parents:

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Message:

Various i18n-related changes to Vim. They need to be duplicated in BLFS also

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3772 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/vim.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

chapter06/vim.xml

@@ -36 +36 @@
 <title>Installation of Vim</title>
 
-<para>First change the default locations of the <filename>vimrc</filename> and
+<para>First, unpack both
+<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 <filename>vimrc</filename> and
 <filename>gvimrc</filename> configuration files to <filename class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
 
@@ -46 +49 @@
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>The optional <userinput>--enable-multibyte</userinput> switch
-includes multibyte editing support into
-vim. It is only needed for those people who ignore our recommendation not to
-use LFS in locales with multibyte character sets, but it does not hurt
-others.</para>
+<para>The optional but highly recommended
+<userinput>--enable-multibyte</userinput> switch
+includes support for editing files in multibyte character encodings into
+vim. It is needed for those people who ignore our recommendation not to
+use LFS in locales with multibyte character sets. It is also needed for
+people who want to be able to edit text files initially created
+in Linux distributions like Fedora Core
+that use UTF-8 as a default character set.</para>
 
 <para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -100 +106 @@
 syntax on
 set background=dark
+set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable>
 
 " End /etc/vimrc
@@ -113 +120 @@
 highliting a better color scheme for use on the black background of a linux
 console.  If you later use X and terminals with a light background, changing
-this will be useful.</para>
+this will be useful. The <emphasis>set fileencodings=...</emphasis> makes
+<command>vim</command> capable of detecting the character set of the
+file being edited. This 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 <option>--enable-multibyte</option> switch to the
+<command>./configure</command> command above, this line will not work.
+</para>
 
 <para>Documentation for other available options can be obtained by running