%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy: bdubbs $ $Date: 2015-02-26 23:16:43 -0500 (Thu, 26 Feb 2015) $ Vim The Vim package, which is an abbreviation for VI IMproved, contains a vi clone with extra features as compared to the original vi. The default LFS instructions install vim as a part of the base system. If you would prefer to link vim against X, you should recompile vim to enable GUI mode. There is no need for special instructions since X support is automatically detected. &lfs77_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &vim-md5sum; Download size: &vim-size; Estimated disk space required: &vim-buildsize; Estimated build time: &vim-time; Vim Dependencies Recommended and Optional , , , , , and LessTif User Notes: If you recompile Vim to link against X and your X libraries are not on the root partition, you will no longer have an editor for use in emergencies. You may choose to install an additional editor, not link Vim against X, or move the current vim executable to the /bin directory under a different name such as vi. Install Vim by running the following commands: echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h && echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h && sed -i 's/luaL_optlong/(long)luaL_optinteger/' src/if_lua.c && ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge && make To test the results, issue: make test. The vim test suite outputs a lot of binary data to the screen, which can cause issues with the settings of the current terminal. This can be resolved by redirecting the output to a log file. Even if one of the tests fails to produce the file test.out in src/testdir, the remaining tests will still be executed. If all goes well,the final message in the log file will be ALL DONE. Note: Some color tests expect to be executed under the xterm terminal emulator. Now, as the root user: make install By default, Vim's documentation is installed in /usr/share/vim. The following symlink allows the documentation to be accessed via /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;, making it consistent with the location of documentation for other packages: ln -snfv ../vim/vim74/doc /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; If you wish to update the runtime files, issue the following command (requires ): rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="/dos/" --exclude="/spell/" \ ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ ./runtime/ To install the runtime files and regenerate the tags file, as the root user issue: make -C src installruntime && vim -c ":helptags /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;" -c ":q" sed -i ... src/if_lua.c: This sed fixes compilation with lua 5.3. --with-features=huge: This switch enables all the additional features available in Vim, including support for multibyte characters. --enable-gui=no: This will prevent compilation of the GUI. Vim will still link against X, so that some features such as the client-server model or the x11-selection (clipboard) are still available. --without-x: If you prefer not to link Vim against X, use this switch. --enable-perlinterp, --enable-pythoninterp, --enable-tclinterp, --enable-rubyinterp: These options include the Perl, Python, Tcl, or Ruby interpreters that allow using other application code in vim scripts. /etc/vimrc and ~/.vimrc /etc/vimrc ~/.vimrc If desired, create a menu entry for graphical vim, gvim.desktop, as the root user cat > /usr/share/applications/gvim.desktop << "EOF" [Desktop Entry] Name=GVim Text Editor Comment=Edit text files Comment[pt_BR]=Edite arquivos de texto TryExec=gvim Exec=gvim -f %F Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=gvim.png Categories=Utility;TextEditor; StartupNotify=true MimeType=text/plain; EOF Vim has an integrated spell checker which you can enable it if you issue the following in a vim window: :setlocal spell spelllang=ru This setting will enable spell checking for the Russian language for the current session. By default, Vim only installs spell files for the English language. If a spell file is not available for a language, then Vim will call the $VIMRUNTIME/plugin/spellfile.vim plugin and will try to obtain the *.spl and optionally *.sug from the vim ftp server, by using the $VIMRUNTIME/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim plugin. Alternatively you can manually download the *.spl and *.sug files from: and save them to ~/.vim/spell or in /usr/share/vim/vim74/spell/. To find out what's new in Vim-&vim-version; issue the following command: :help version-&vim-version; For additional information on setting up Vim configuration files, see and . A list of the reinstalled files, along with their short descriptions can be found in the LFS Vim Installation Instructions Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directory gview, gvim, gvimdiff, rgview, and rgvim None /usr/share/vim Short Descriptions gview starts gvim in read-only mode. gview gvim is the editor that runs under X and includes a GUI. gvim gvimdiff edits two or three versions of a file with gvim and shows the differences. gvimdiff rgview is a restricted version of gview. rgview rgvim is a restricted version of gvim. gvim