Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote:
> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>   
>> Is there a brief description of what's needed to add a new package to 
>> the environment?
>>
>> I'd like to use "vim" instead of the Busybox version of vi [sic].  Not 
>> having regex's is just too painful.  ;-)
>>     
>
> What are you attempting to do with vi that you can't do?  I've done 
> search and replace using this syntax:
>
> %s/searchword/replaceword/g
>
> That works fine.  I you wanted to add a package you'd want to follow one 
> of the simpler packages for an example of what you need to do.
>
> iftop is an example of a dead simple package.  Depending on the package 
> and how it builds, you may need to adjust.
>
> Darrick
>   

I started to use "which" as a template...  seemed simple enough...

Things like "*", "^", "$", etc. are handy... as are .,+10s/match/subst/ 
(i.e. dot-relative addressing)... using h for left, j for down, k for 
up, l for right, etc...  all the things that classic (4.1bsd) VI used to 
do...

-Philip


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