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diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml index 66f529bdb..18b810d31 100644 --- a/chapter06/vim.xml +++ b/chapter06/vim.xml @@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h</userinput>< <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 +<command>vim</command>. +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 @@ -104,7 +105,6 @@ the following:</para> 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 @@ -116,12 +116,12 @@ vi-compatible manner. Remove the "no" if you want the old <command>vi</command> behavior. The <emphasis>set backspace=2</emphasis> allows backspacing over line breaks, autoindents and the start of insert. The <emphasis>syntax on</emphasis> enables <command>vim</command>'s -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. 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 +syntax highliting. The <emphasis>set fileencodings=...</emphasis> makes +<command>vim</command> capable of automatically detecting the character +set of the file being edited (replace +"<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable>" +with the value appropriate for your country, e.g. iso-8859-15 in Italy). +This line 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 |