lfs-book/chapter06/vim.xml

<sect1 id="ch-system-vim" xreflabel="Vim">
<title>Installing Vim-&vim-version;</title>
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<para>The Vim package contains a powerful text editor.</para>

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<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Alternatives to Vim</title>
<para>If you prefer another editor -- like Emacs, Joe, or Nano -- to Vim,
have a look at <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/editors.html"/> for
suggested installation instructions.</para>
</sect2>

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Vim</title>

<para>First change the default locations of the <filename>vimrc</filename> and
<filename>gvimrc</filename> files to <filename
class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>

<screen><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h
echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h</userinput></screen>

<para>Now prepare Vim for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>To have the results tested, you can issue:
<userinput>make check</userinput>. However, this test suite outputs a lot of
seemingly garbage characters to the screen, and this can wreak havoc with the
settings of the current terminal. Accordingly, the running of the test suite
here is strictly optional.</para>

<para>And install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

<para>When called as <command>vi</command>, <command>vim</command>
will run in old-fashioned vi-mode. To allow this, create a symlink:</para>

<screen><userinput>ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen>

<para>If you are going to install the X Window system on your LFS system, you
may want to re-compile Vim after having installed X. Vim comes with a nice GUI
version of the editor that requires X and a few other libraries to be
installed. For more information read the Vim documentation.</para>

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