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@@ -35,7 +35,10 @@ suggested installation instructions.</para>
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<sect2 role="installation">
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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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+<para>First, unpack both
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+<filename>vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2</filename> and (optionally)
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+<filename>vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz</filename> archives into the same
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+directory. Then change the default locations of the <filename>vimrc</filename> and
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<filename>gvimrc</filename> configuration files to <filename 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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@@ -45,11 +48,14 @@ echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h</userinput><
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<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte</userinput></screen>
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-<para>The optional <userinput>--enable-multibyte</userinput> switch
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-includes multibyte editing support into
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-vim. It is only needed for those people who ignore our recommendation not to
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-use LFS in locales with multibyte character sets, but it does not hurt
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-others.</para>
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+<para>The optional but highly recommended
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+<userinput>--enable-multibyte</userinput> switch
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+includes support for editing files in multibyte character encodings into
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+vim. It is needed for those people who ignore our recommendation not to
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+use LFS in locales with multibyte character sets. It is also needed for
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+people who want to be able to edit text files initially created
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+in Linux distributions like Fedora Core
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+that use UTF-8 as a default character set.</para>
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<para>Compile the package:</para>
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@@ -99,6 +105,7 @@ set nocompatible
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set backspace=2
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syntax on
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set background=dark
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+set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable>
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" End /etc/vimrc
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<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
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@@ -112,7 +119,14 @@ backspacing over line breaks, autoindents and the start of insert. The
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syntax highliting, while <emphasis>set background=dark</emphasis> gives the
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highliting a better color scheme for use on the black background of a linux
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console. If you later use X and terminals with a light background, changing
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-this will be useful.</para>
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+this will be useful. The <emphasis>set fileencodings=...</emphasis> makes
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+<command>vim</command> capable of detecting the character set of the
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+file being edited. This is useful because bleeding-edge distributions
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+like Fedora Core use UTF-8, and conservative ones like Debian
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+use traditional 8-bit encodings for text files. If you have not
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+passed the <option>--enable-multibyte</option> switch to the
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+<command>./configure</command> command above, this line will not work.
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+</para>
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<para>Documentation for other available options can be obtained by running
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the following command:</para>
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Alexander E. Patrakov