source: final-system/common/vim.xml@ 99308263

Last change on this file since 99308263 was 3f81e97e, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r916@server (orig r914): ken | 2005-12-19 12:30:11 -0800
Resolve access to vim's help files, from LFS
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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 <segmentedlist>
23 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
24
25 <seglistitem>
26 <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
27 GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg>
28 </seglistitem>
29 </segmentedlist>
30
31 <tip>
32 <title>Alternatives to Vim</title>
33
34 <para>If you prefer another editor&mdash;such as Emacs, Joe, or
35 Nano&mdash;please refer to <ulink
36 url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/editors.html"/>
37 for suggested installation instructions.</para>
38 </tip>
39
40 </sect2>
41
42 <sect2 role="installation">
43 <title>Installation of Vim</title>
44
45 <para os="a">First, unpack both <filename>vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2</filename>
46 and (optionally) <filename>vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz</filename>
47 archives into the same directory. Then, change the default location of
48 the <filename>vimrc</filename> configuration file to <filename
49 class="directory">/etc</filename>:</para>
50
51<screen os="b"><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h</userinput></screen>
52
53 <para os="c">Prepare Vim for compilation:</para>
54
55<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte</userinput></screen>
56
57 <variablelist os="e">
58 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
59
60 <varlistentry>
61 <term><parameter>--enable-multibyte</parameter></term>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>This optional but highly recommended switch enables support
64 for editing files in multibyte character encodings. This is needed
65 if using a locale with a multibyte character set. This switch is
66 also helpful to be able to edit text files initially created in
67 Linux distributions like Fedora Core that use UTF-8 as a default
68 character set.</para>
69 </listitem>
70 </varlistentry>
71
72 </variablelist>
73
74 <para os="f">Compile the package:</para>
75
76<screen os="g"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
77
78 <para os="h">To test the results, issue: <userinput>make test</userinput>.
79 However, this test suite outputs a lot of binary data to the
80 screen, which can cause issues with the settings of the current terminal.
81 This can be resolved by redirecting the output to a log file.</para>
82
83 <para os="i">Install the package:</para>
84
85<screen os="j"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
86
87 <para os="l">Many users are used to using <command>vi</command> instead of
88 <command>vim</command>. To allow execution of <command>vim</command>
89 when users habitually enter <command>vi</command>, create a
90 symlink:</para>
91
92<screen os="m"><userinput>ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen>
93
94<para os="m1">By default, Vim's documentation is installed in
95<filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>. The following symlink
96allows the documentation to be accessed via
97<filename class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>, making
98it consistent with the location of documentation for other packages:</para>
99
100<screen os="m2"><userinput>ln -sv /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc ../../../doc/vim-&vim-version;</userinput></screen>
101
102 <para os="n">If an X Window System is going to be installed on the LFS
103 system, it may be necessary to recompile Vim after installing X. Vim
104 comes with a GUI version of the editor that requires X and some
105 additional libraries to be installed. For more information on this
106 process, refer to the Vim documentation and the Vim installation page
107 in the BLFS book at <ulink
108 url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/editors.html#postlfs-editors-vim"/>.</para>
109
110 </sect2>
111
112 <sect2 id="conf-vim" role="configuration">
113 <title>Configuring Vim</title>
114
115 <indexterm zone="conf-vim">
116 <primary sortas="e-/etc/vim">/etc/vim</primary>
117 </indexterm>
118
119 <para>By default, <command>vim</command> runs in vi-incompatible mode.
120 This may be new to users who have used other editors in the past. The
121 <quote>nocompatible</quote> setting is included below to highlight the
122 fact that a new behavior is being used. It also reminds those who would
123 change to <quote>compatible</quote> mode that it should be the first
124 setting in the configuration file. This is necessary because it changes
125 other settings, and overrides must come after this setting. Create a
126 default <command>vim</command> configuration file by running the
127 following:</para>
128
129<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/vimrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
130<literal>" Begin /etc/vimrc
131
132set nocompatible
133set backspace=2
134syntax on
135if (&amp;term == "iterm") || (&amp;term == "putty")
136 set background=dark
137endif
138
139" End /etc/vimrc</literal>
140EOF</userinput></screen>
141
142
143 <para>The <parameter>set nocompatible</parameter> makes
144 <command>vim</command> behave in a more useful way (the default) than
145 the vi-compatible manner. Remove the <quote>no</quote> to keep the
146 old <command>vi</command> behavior. The <parameter>set
147 backspace=2</parameter> allows backspacing over line breaks,
148 autoindents, and the start of insert. The <parameter>syntax
149 on</parameter> enables vim's syntax highlighting. Finally, the
150 <emphasis>if</emphasis> statement with the <parameter>set
151 background=dark</parameter> corrects <command>vim</command>'s guess
152 about the background color of some terminal emulators. This gives the
153 highlighting a better color scheme for use on the black background of
154 these programs.</para>
155
156 <para>Documentation for other available options can be obtained by
157 running the following command:</para>
158
159<screen><userinput>vim -c ':options'</userinput></screen>
160
161 </sect2>
162
163 <sect2 id="contents-vim" role="content">
164 <title>Contents of Vim</title>
165
166 <segmentedlist>
167 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
168
169 <seglistitem>
170 <seg>efm_filter.pl, efm_perl.pl, ex (link to vim), less.sh, mve.awk,
171 pltags.pl, ref, rview (link to vim), rvim (link to vim), shtags.pl,
172 tcltags, vi (link to vim), view (link to vim), vim, vim132, vim2html.pl,
173 vimdiff (link to vim), vimm, vimspell.sh, vimtutor, and xxd</seg>
174 </seglistitem>
175 </segmentedlist>
176
177 <variablelist>
178 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
179 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
180 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
181
182 <varlistentry id="efm_filter.pl">
183 <term><command>efm_filter.pl</command></term>
184 <listitem>
185 <para>A filter for creating an error file that can be read
186 by <command>vim</command></para>
187 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim efm_filter.pl">
188 <primary sortas="b-efm_filter.pl">efm_filter.pl</primary>
189 </indexterm>
190 </listitem>
191 </varlistentry>
192
193 <varlistentry id="efm_perl.pl">
194 <term><command>efm_perl.pl</command></term>
195 <listitem>
196 <para>Reformats the error messages of the Perl interpreter for use
197 with the <quote>quickfix</quote> mode of <command>vim</command></para>
198 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim efm_perl.pl">
199 <primary sortas="b-efm_perl.pl">efm_perl.pl</primary>
200 </indexterm>
201 </listitem>
202 </varlistentry>
203
204 <varlistentry id="ex">
205 <term><command>ex</command></term>
206 <listitem>
207 <para>Starts <command>vim</command> in ex mode</para>
208 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim ex">
209 <primary sortas="b-ex">ex</primary>
210 </indexterm>
211 </listitem>
212 </varlistentry>
213
214 <varlistentry id="less.sh">
215 <term><command>less.sh</command></term>
216 <listitem>
217 <para>A script that starts <command>vim</command> with less.vim</para>
218 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim less.sh">
219 <primary sortas="b-less.sh">less.sh</primary>
220 </indexterm>
221 </listitem>
222 </varlistentry>
223
224 <varlistentry id="mve.awk">
225 <term><command>mve.awk</command></term>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>Processes <command>vim</command> errors</para>
228 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim mve.awk">
229 <primary sortas="b-mve.awk">mve.awk</primary>
230 </indexterm>
231 </listitem>
232 </varlistentry>
233
234 <varlistentry id="pltags.pl">
235 <term><command>pltags.pl</command></term>
236 <listitem>
237 <para>Creates a tags file for Perl code for use by
238 <command>vim</command></para>
239 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim pltags.pl">
240 <primary sortas="b-pltags.pl">pltags.pl</primary>
241 </indexterm>
242 </listitem>
243 </varlistentry>
244
245 <varlistentry id="ref">
246 <term><command>ref</command></term>
247 <listitem>
248 <para>Checks the spelling of arguments</para>
249 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim ref">
250 <primary sortas="b-ref">ref</primary>
251 </indexterm>
252 </listitem>
253 </varlistentry>
254
255 <varlistentry id="rview">
256 <term><command>rview</command></term>
257 <listitem>
258 <para>Is a restricted version of <command>view</command>; no shell
259 commands can be started and <command>view</command> cannot be
260 suspended</para>
261 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim rview">
262 <primary sortas="b-rview">rview</primary>
263 </indexterm>
264 </listitem>
265 </varlistentry>
266
267 <varlistentry id="rvim">
268 <term><command>rvim</command></term>
269 <listitem>
270 <para>Is a restricted version of <command>vim</command>; no shell
271 commands can be started and <command>vim</command> cannot be
272 suspended</para>
273 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim rvim">
274 <primary sortas="b-rvim">rvim</primary>
275 </indexterm>
276 </listitem>
277 </varlistentry>
278
279 <varlistentry id="shtags.pl">
280 <term><command>shtags.pl</command></term>
281 <listitem>
282 <para>Generates a tags file for Perl scripts</para>
283 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim shtags.pl">
284 <primary sortas="b-shtags.pl">shtags.pl</primary>
285 </indexterm>
286 </listitem>
287 </varlistentry>
288
289 <varlistentry id="tcltags">
290 <term><command>tcltags</command></term>
291 <listitem>
292 <para>Generates a tags file for TCL code</para>
293 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim tcltags">
294 <primary sortas="b-tcltags">tcltags</primary>
295 </indexterm>
296 </listitem>
297 </varlistentry>
298
299 <varlistentry id="view">
300 <term><command>view</command></term>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>Starts <command>vim</command> in read-only mode</para>
303 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim view">
304 <primary sortas="b-view">view</primary>
305 </indexterm>
306 </listitem>
307 </varlistentry>
308
309 <varlistentry id="vi">
310 <term><command>vi</command></term>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>Link to <command>vim</command></para>
313 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vi">
314 <primary sortas="b-vi">vi</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316 </listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 <varlistentry id="vim">
320 <term><command>vim</command></term>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>Is the editor</para>
323 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim">
324 <primary sortas="b-vim">vim</primary>
325 </indexterm>
326 </listitem>
327 </varlistentry>
328
329 <varlistentry id="vim132">
330 <term><command>vim132</command></term>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>Starts <command>vim</command> with the terminal in 132-column
333 mode</para>
334 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim132">
335 <primary sortas="b-vim132">vim132</primary>
336 </indexterm>
337 </listitem>
338 </varlistentry>
339
340 <varlistentry id="vim2html.pl">
341 <term><command>vim2html.pl</command></term>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>Converts Vim documentation to HypterText Markup Language
344 (HTML)</para>
345 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vim2html.pl">
346 <primary sortas="b-vim2html.pl">vim2html.pl</primary>
347 </indexterm>
348 </listitem>
349 </varlistentry>
350
351 <varlistentry id="vimdiff">
352 <term><command>vimdiff</command></term>
353 <listitem>
354 <para>Edits two or three versions of a file with <command>vim</command>
355 and show differences</para>
356 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimdiff">
357 <primary sortas="b-vimdiff">vimdiff</primary>
358 </indexterm>
359 </listitem>
360 </varlistentry>
361
362 <varlistentry id="vimm">
363 <term><command>vimm</command></term>
364 <listitem>
365 <para>Enables the DEC locator input model on a remote terminal</para>
366 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimm">
367 <primary sortas="b-vimm">vimm</primary>
368 </indexterm>
369 </listitem>
370 </varlistentry>
371
372 <varlistentry id="vimspell.sh">
373 <term><command>vimspell.sh</command></term>
374 <listitem>
375 <para>Spell checks a file and generates the syntax statements
376 necessary to highlight in <command>vim</command>. This script
377 requires the old Unix <command>spell</command> command, which
378 is provided neither in LFS nor in BLFS</para>
379 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimspell.sh">
380 <primary sortas="b-vimspell.sh">vimspell.sh</primary>
381 </indexterm>
382 </listitem>
383 </varlistentry>
384
385 <varlistentry id="vimtutor">
386 <term><command>vimtutor</command></term>
387 <listitem>
388 <para>Teaches the basic keys and commands of
389 <command>vim</command></para>
390 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim vimtutor">
391 <primary sortas="b-vimtutor">vimtutor</primary>
392 </indexterm>
393 </listitem>
394 </varlistentry>
395
396 <varlistentry id="xxd">
397 <term><command>xxd</command></term>
398 <listitem>
399 <para>Creates a hex dump of the given file; it can
400 also do the reverse, so it can be used for binary patching</para>
401 <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim xxd">
402 <primary sortas="b-xxd">xxd</primary>
403 </indexterm>
404 </listitem>
405 </varlistentry>
406
407 </variablelist>
408
409 </sect2>
410
411</sect1>
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