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| author | Alexander E. Patrakov <alexander@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-06-10 08:18:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexander E. Patrakov <alexander@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-06-10 08:18:07 +0000 |
| commit | b5b61fd61aa2ce4ea3a1d3cb0096fe8210e4bbab (patch) | |
| tree | 2daac579367f76de6e917e26459dc2c68bdaae38 /chapter06/vim.xml | |
| parent | 186f9fc0574cbd2e00cf6c5db69d66ffb1b8e34f (diff) | |
Various i18n-related changes to Vim. They need to be duplicated in BLFS also
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3772 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/vim.xml | 28 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml index ffb38e01e..66f529bdb 100644 --- a/chapter06/vim.xml +++ b/chapter06/vim.xml @@ -35,7 +35,10 @@ suggested installation instructions.</para> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Vim</title> -<para>First change the default locations of the <filename>vimrc</filename> and +<para>First, unpack both +<filename>vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2</filename> and (optionally) +<filename>vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz</filename> archives into the same +directory. Then change the default locations of the <filename>vimrc</filename> and <filename>gvimrc</filename> configuration files to <filename class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para> <screen><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h @@ -45,11 +48,14 @@ echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h</userinput>< <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte</userinput></screen> -<para>The optional <userinput>--enable-multibyte</userinput> switch -includes multibyte editing support into -vim. It is only needed for those people who ignore our recommendation not to -use LFS in locales with multibyte character sets, but it does not hurt -others.</para> +<para>The optional but highly recommended +<userinput>--enable-multibyte</userinput> switch +includes support for editing files in multibyte character encodings into +vim. It is needed for those people who ignore our recommendation not to +use LFS in locales with multibyte character sets. It is also needed for +people who want to be able to edit text files initially created +in Linux distributions like Fedora Core +that use UTF-8 as a default character set.</para> <para>Compile the package:</para> @@ -99,6 +105,7 @@ set nocompatible set backspace=2 syntax on set background=dark +set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable> " End /etc/vimrc <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen> @@ -112,7 +119,14 @@ backspacing over line breaks, autoindents and the start of insert. The syntax highliting, while <emphasis>set background=dark</emphasis> gives the highliting a better color scheme for use on the black background of a linux console. If you later use X and terminals with a light background, changing -this will be useful.</para> +this will be useful. The <emphasis>set fileencodings=...</emphasis> makes +<command>vim</command> capable of detecting the character set of the +file being edited. This is useful because bleeding-edge distributions +like Fedora Core use UTF-8, and conservative ones like Debian +use traditional 8-bit encodings for text files. If you have not +passed the <option>--enable-multibyte</option> switch to the +<command>./configure</command> command above, this line will not work. +</para> <para>Documentation for other available options can be obtained by running the following command:</para> |