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<sect1 id="ch-system-vim" xreflabel="Vim">
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<title>Installing Vim-&vim-version;</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="vim.html" dir="chapter06"?>
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<para>The Vim package contains a powerful text editor.</para>
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<screen>&buildtime; &vim-time;
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&diskspace; &vim-compsize;</screen>
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&aa-vim-down;
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&aa-vim-dep;
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<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Alternatives to Vim</title>
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<para>If you prefer another editor -- like Emacs, Joe, or Nano -- to Vim,
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have a look at <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/editors.html"/> for
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suggested installation instructions.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Installation of Vim</title>
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<para>First change the default locations of the <filename>vimrc</filename> and
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<filename>gvimrc</filename> files to <filename
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class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
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<screen><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h
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echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h</userinput></screen>
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<para>Now prepare Vim for compilation:</para>
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<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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<para>Compile the package:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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<para>To have the results tested, you can issue:
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<userinput>make check</userinput>. However, this test suite outputs a lot of
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seemingly garbage characters to the screen, and this can wreak havoc with the
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settings of the current terminal. Accordingly, the running of the test suite
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here is strictly optional.</para>
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<para>And install the package:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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<para>When called as <command>vi</command>, <command>vim</command>
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will run in old-fashioned vi-mode. To allow this, create a symlink:</para>
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<screen><userinput>ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen>
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<para>If you are going to install the X Window system on your LFS system, you
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may want to re-compile Vim after having installed X. Vim comes with a nice GUI
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version of the editor that requires X and a few other libraries to be
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installed. For more information read the Vim documentation.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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<sect2><title>Configuring Vim</title>
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<para>By default, <command>vim</command> runs in vi-compatible mode. Some
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people might like this, but we prefer to run <command>vim</command> in its
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own mode (else we wouldn't have included it in this book, but the original
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<command>vi</command>). Create a default vim configuration file by running
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the following:</para>
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<screen><userinput>cat > /etc/vimrc << "EOF"</userinput>
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" Begin /etc/vimrc
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set nocompatible
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set backspace=2
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syntax on
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" End /etc/vimrc
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<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
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<para>The <emphasis>set nocompatible</emphasis> will make
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<command>vim</command> behave in a more useful way than the default
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vi-compatible manner. The <emphasis>set backspace=2</emphasis> allows
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backspacing over line breaks, autoindent and the start of insert. And the
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<emphasis>syntax on</emphasis> switches on <command>vim</command>'s
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semantic colouring.</para>
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</sect2>
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&aa-vim-shortdesc;
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&aa-vim-desc;
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</sect1>
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