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Last change on this file since 6c341df was 817bb11, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3845@server (orig r1734): jciccone | 2006-06-06 14:31:29 -0700
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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-vim" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="vim.html"?>
10
11 <title>Vim-&vim-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim">
14 <primary sortas="a-Vim">Vim</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Vim package contains a powerful text editor.</para>
21
22 <tip>
23 <title>Alternatives to Vim</title>
24
25 <para>If you prefer another editor&mdash;such as Emacs, Joe, or
26 Nano&mdash;please refer to <ulink
27 url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/editors.html"/>
28 for suggested installation instructions.</para>
29 </tip>
30
31 </sect2>
32
33 <sect2 role="installation">
34 <title>Installation of Vim</title>
35
36 <para os="a">First, unpack both <filename>vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2</filename>
37 and (optionally) <filename>vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz</filename>
38 archives into the same directory.</para>
39
40 <para os="p1">The following patch fixes numerous issues with
41 cross-compiling vim</para>
42
43<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&vim-cross_compile-patch;</userinput></screen>
44
45 <para os="p3">The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The
46 maintainer of Vim only releases these patches to fix serious issues.</para>
47
48<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&vim-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
49
50 <para os="b">Change the default location of
51 the <filename>vimrc</filename> configuration file to <filename
52 class="directory">/etc</filename>:</para>
53
54<screen os="c"><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h</userinput></screen>
55
56 <para os="d">Prepare Vim for compilation:</para>
57
58<screen os="e"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --host=${LFS_TARGET} \
59 --enable-multibyte --enable-gui=no \
60 --disable-gtktest --disable-xim \
61 --with-features=normal --disable-gpm \
62 --without-x --disable-netbeans \
63 --with-tlib=ncurses</userinput></screen>
64
65 <variablelist os="f">
66 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
67
68 <varlistentry>
69 <term><parameter>--enable-multibyte</parameter></term>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>This optional but highly recommended switch enables support
72 for editing files in multibyte character encodings. This is needed
73 if using a locale with a multibyte character set. This switch is
74 also helpful to be able to edit text files initially created in
75 Linux distributions like Fedora Core that use UTF-8 as a default
76 character set.</para>
77 </listitem>
78 </varlistentry>
79
80 </variablelist>
81
82 <para os="g">Compile the package:</para>
83
84<screen os="h"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
85
86 <para os="i">Install the package:</para>
87
88<screen os="j"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${LFS} install</userinput></screen>
89
90 <para os="k">Many users are used to using <command>vi</command> instead of
91 <command>vim</command>. To allow execution of <command>vim</command>
92 when users habitually enter <command>vi</command>, create a
93 symlink:</para>
94
95<screen os="l"><userinput>ln -sv vim ${LFS}/usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen>
96
97<para os="m">By default, Vim's documentation is installed in
98<filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>. The following symlink
99allows the documentation to be accessed via
100<filename class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>, making
101it consistent with the location of documentation for other packages:</para>
102
103<screen os="n"><userinput>ln -sv ../vim/vim&vim-version2;/doc ${LFS}/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</userinput></screen>
104
105 <para os="p">If an X Window System is going to be installed on the LFS
106 system, it may be necessary to recompile Vim after installing X. Vim
107 comes with a GUI version of the editor that requires X and some
108 additional libraries to be installed. For more information on this
109 process, refer to the Vim documentation and the Vim installation page
110 in the BLFS book at <ulink
111 url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/editors.html#postlfs-editors-vim"/>.</para>
112
113 </sect2>
114
115 <sect2 id="conf-vim" role="configuration">
116 <title>Configuring Vim</title>
117
118 <indexterm zone="conf-vim">
119 <primary sortas="e-/etc/vimrc">/etc/vimrc</primary>
120 </indexterm>
121
122 <para>By default, <command>vim</command> runs in vi-incompatible mode.
123 This may be new to users who have used other editors in the past. The
124 <quote>nocompatible</quote> setting is included below to highlight the
125 fact that a new behavior is being used. It also reminds those who would
126 change to <quote>compatible</quote> mode that it should be the first
127 setting in the configuration file. This is necessary because it changes
128 other settings, and overrides must come after this setting. Create a
129 default <command>vim</command> configuration file by running the
130 following:</para>
131
132<screen><userinput>cat &gt; ${LFS}/etc/vimrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
133<literal>" Begin /etc/vimrc
134
135set nocompatible
136set backspace=2
137syntax on
138if (&amp;term == "iterm") || (&amp;term == "putty")
139 set background=dark
140endif
141
142" End /etc/vimrc</literal>
143EOF</userinput></screen>
144
145
146 <para>The <parameter>set nocompatible</parameter> makes
147 <command>vim</command> behave in a more useful way (the default) than
148 the vi-compatible manner. Remove the <quote>no</quote> to keep the
149 old <command>vi</command> behavior. The <parameter>set
150 backspace=2</parameter> allows backspacing over line breaks,
151 autoindents, and the start of insert. The <parameter>syntax
152 on</parameter> enables vim's syntax highlighting. Finally, the
153 <emphasis>if</emphasis> statement with the <parameter>set
154 background=dark</parameter> corrects <command>vim</command>'s guess
155 about the background color of some terminal emulators. This gives the
156 highlighting a better color scheme for use on the black background of
157 these programs.</para>
158
159 <para>Documentation for other available options can be obtained by
160 running the following command:</para>
161
162<screen role="nodump"><userinput>vim -c ':options'</userinput></screen>
163
164 </sect2>
165
166 <sect2 id="contents-vim" role="content">
167 <title>Contents of Vim</title>
168
169 <segmentedlist>
170 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
171
172 <seglistitem>
173 <seg>efm_filter.pl, efm_perl.pl, ex (link to vim), less.sh, mve.awk,
174 pltags.pl, ref, rview (link to vim), rvim (link to vim), shtags.pl,
175 tcltags, vi (link to vim), view (link to vim), vim, vim132, vim2html.pl,
176 vimdiff (link to vim), vimm, vimspell.sh, vimtutor, and xxd</seg>
177 </seglistitem>
178 </segmentedlist>
179
180 <variablelist>
181 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
182 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
183 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
184
185 <varlistentry id="efm_filter.pl">
186 <term><command>efm_filter.pl</command></term>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>A filter for creating an error file that can be read
189 by <command>vim</command></para>
190 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim efm_filter.pl">
191 <primary sortas="b-efm_filter.pl">efm_filter.pl</primary>
192 </indexterm>
193 </listitem>
194 </varlistentry>
195
196 <varlistentry id="efm_perl.pl">
197 <term><command>efm_perl.pl</command></term>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>Reformats the error messages of the Perl interpreter for use
200 with the <quote>quickfix</quote> mode of <command>vim</command></para>
201 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim efm_perl.pl">
202 <primary sortas="b-efm_perl.pl">efm_perl.pl</primary>
203 </indexterm>
204 </listitem>
205 </varlistentry>
206
207 <varlistentry id="ex">
208 <term><command>ex</command></term>
209 <listitem>
210 <para>Starts <command>vim</command> in ex mode</para>
211 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim ex">
212 <primary sortas="b-ex">ex</primary>
213 </indexterm>
214 </listitem>
215 </varlistentry>
216
217 <varlistentry id="less.sh">
218 <term><command>less.sh</command></term>
219 <listitem>
220 <para>A script that starts <command>vim</command> with less.vim</para>
221 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim less.sh">
222 <primary sortas="b-less.sh">less.sh</primary>
223 </indexterm>
224 </listitem>
225 </varlistentry>
226
227 <varlistentry id="mve.awk">
228 <term><command>mve.awk</command></term>
229 <listitem>
230 <para>Processes <command>vim</command> errors</para>
231 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim mve.awk">
232 <primary sortas="b-mve.awk">mve.awk</primary>
233 </indexterm>
234 </listitem>
235 </varlistentry>
236
237 <varlistentry id="pltags.pl">
238 <term><command>pltags.pl</command></term>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>Creates a tags file for Perl code for use by
241 <command>vim</command></para>
242 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim pltags.pl">
243 <primary sortas="b-pltags.pl">pltags.pl</primary>
244 </indexterm>
245 </listitem>
246 </varlistentry>
247
248 <varlistentry id="ref">
249 <term><command>ref</command></term>
250 <listitem>
251 <para>Checks the spelling of arguments</para>
252 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim ref">
253 <primary sortas="b-ref">ref</primary>
254 </indexterm>
255 </listitem>
256 </varlistentry>
257
258 <varlistentry id="rview">
259 <term><command>rview</command></term>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>Is a restricted version of <command>view</command>; no shell
262 commands can be started and <command>view</command> cannot be
263 suspended</para>
264 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim rview">
265 <primary sortas="b-rview">rview</primary>
266 </indexterm>
267 </listitem>
268 </varlistentry>
269
270 <varlistentry id="rvim">
271 <term><command>rvim</command></term>
272 <listitem>
273 <para>Is a restricted version of <command>vim</command>; no shell
274 commands can be started and <command>vim</command> cannot be
275 suspended</para>
276 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim rvim">
277 <primary sortas="b-rvim">rvim</primary>
278 </indexterm>
279 </listitem>
280 </varlistentry>
281
282 <varlistentry id="shtags.pl">
283 <term><command>shtags.pl</command></term>
284 <listitem>
285 <para>Generates a tags file for Perl scripts</para>
286 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim shtags.pl">
287 <primary sortas="b-shtags.pl">shtags.pl</primary>
288 </indexterm>
289 </listitem>
290 </varlistentry>
291
292 <varlistentry id="tcltags">
293 <term><command>tcltags</command></term>
294 <listitem>
295 <para>Generates a tags file for TCL code</para>
296 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim tcltags">
297 <primary sortas="b-tcltags">tcltags</primary>
298 </indexterm>
299 </listitem>
300 </varlistentry>
301
302 <varlistentry id="view">
303 <term><command>view</command></term>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>Starts <command>vim</command> in read-only mode</para>
306 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim view">
307 <primary sortas="b-view">view</primary>
308 </indexterm>
309 </listitem>
310 </varlistentry>
311
312 <varlistentry id="vi">
313 <term><command>vi</command></term>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>Link to <command>vim</command></para>
316 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vi">
317 <primary sortas="b-vi">vi</primary>
318 </indexterm>
319 </listitem>
320 </varlistentry>
321
322 <varlistentry id="vim">
323 <term><command>vim</command></term>
324 <listitem>
325 <para>Is the editor</para>
326 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim">
327 <primary sortas="b-vim">vim</primary>
328 </indexterm>
329 </listitem>
330 </varlistentry>
331
332 <varlistentry id="vim132">
333 <term><command>vim132</command></term>
334 <listitem>
335 <para>Starts <command>vim</command> with the terminal in 132-column
336 mode</para>
337 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim132">
338 <primary sortas="b-vim132">vim132</primary>
339 </indexterm>
340 </listitem>
341 </varlistentry>
342
343 <varlistentry id="vim2html.pl">
344 <term><command>vim2html.pl</command></term>
345 <listitem>
346 <para>Converts Vim documentation to HypterText Markup Language
347 (HTML)</para>
348 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim2html.pl">
349 <primary sortas="b-vim2html.pl">vim2html.pl</primary>
350 </indexterm>
351 </listitem>
352 </varlistentry>
353
354 <varlistentry id="vimdiff">
355 <term><command>vimdiff</command></term>
356 <listitem>
357 <para>Edits two or three versions of a file with <command>vim</command>
358 and show differences</para>
359 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimdiff">
360 <primary sortas="b-vimdiff">vimdiff</primary>
361 </indexterm>
362 </listitem>
363 </varlistentry>
364
365 <varlistentry id="vimm">
366 <term><command>vimm</command></term>
367 <listitem>
368 <para>Enables the DEC locator input model on a remote terminal</para>
369 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimm">
370 <primary sortas="b-vimm">vimm</primary>
371 </indexterm>
372 </listitem>
373 </varlistentry>
374
375 <varlistentry id="vimspell.sh">
376 <term><command>vimspell.sh</command></term>
377 <listitem>
378 <para>Spell checks a file and generates the syntax statements
379 necessary to highlight in <command>vim</command>. This script
380 requires the old Unix <command>spell</command> command, which
381 is provided neither in LFS nor in BLFS</para>
382 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimspell.sh">
383 <primary sortas="b-vimspell.sh">vimspell.sh</primary>
384 </indexterm>
385 </listitem>
386 </varlistentry>
387
388 <varlistentry id="vimtutor">
389 <term><command>vimtutor</command></term>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>Teaches the basic keys and commands of
392 <command>vim</command></para>
393 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimtutor">
394 <primary sortas="b-vimtutor">vimtutor</primary>
395 </indexterm>
396 </listitem>
397 </varlistentry>
398
399 <varlistentry id="xxd">
400 <term><command>xxd</command></term>
401 <listitem>
402 <para>Creates a hex dump of the given file; it can
403 also do the reverse, so it can be used for binary patching</para>
404 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim xxd">
405 <primary sortas="b-xxd">xxd</primary>
406 </indexterm>
407 </listitem>
408 </varlistentry>
409
410 </variablelist>
411
412 </sect2>
413
414</sect1>
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