Author: ag
Date: 2008-02-23 17:35:58 -0700 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008)
New Revision: 7190
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/postlfs/editors/vim.xml
Log:
Updated vim to the latest upstream patches and added a command to update the
runtime files
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2008-02-23 00:38:35 UTC (rev 7189)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2008-02-24 00:35:58 UTC (rev 7190)
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
$Date$
-->
-<!ENTITY day "22"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "24"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "02"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2008">
<!ENTITY version "svn-&year;&month;&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "February &day;nd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "February &day;th, &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!--
version|testing|unstable|development] -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2008-02-23 00:38:35 UTC
(rev 7189)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2008-02-24 00:35:58 UTC
(rev 7190)
@@ -40,7 +40,18 @@
</listitem>
-->
+
<listitem>
+ <para>February 24th, 2008</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[ag] - Updated vim with the latest upstream patches.
+ Added a command to update the runtime files.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>February 22nd, 2008</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/postlfs/editors/vim.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/postlfs/editors/vim.xml 2008-02-23 00:38:35 UTC (rev 7189)
+++ trunk/BOOK/postlfs/editors/vim.xml 2008-02-24 00:35:58 UTC (rev 7190)
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Required Patch: <ulink
- url="&patch-root;/vim-&vim-version;-fixes-3.patch"/></para>
+ url="&patch-root;/vim-&vim-version;-fixes-6.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Translated Vim messages: <ulink
@@ -91,8 +91,10 @@
<xref linkend="GTK"/>,
<xref linkend="python"/>,
<xref linkend="tcl"/>,
- <xref linkend="ruby"/>, and
- <xref linkend="gpm"/></para>
+ <xref linkend="ruby"/>,
+ <xref linkend="gpm"/> and
+ <xref linkend="rsync"/> (to update the runtime files)
+ </para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vim"/></para>
@@ -146,15 +148,26 @@
<para>By default, Vim's documentation is installed in <filename
class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>. The following symlink allows
the documentation to be accessed via <filename
- class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>, making it
consistent
- with the location of documentation for other packages:</para>
+ class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>, making it
+ consistent with the location of documentation for other packages:</para>
-
<!-- When updating, be sure to change the line below for the proper 'vimxx'
unpacked
directory -->
<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -snfv ../vim/vim71/doc
/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</userinput></screen>
+ <para>If you wish to update the runtime files issue the
+ following command (requires <application>rsync</application>):</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>
+rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="/dos/" --exclude="/spell/"
ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ ./runtime/
+</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C src installruntime
+</userinput></screen>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
@@ -169,8 +182,8 @@
<para><option>--enable-gui=no</option>: This will prevent compilation of
the
GUI. <application>Vim</application> will still link against
- <application>X</application> so that some nice eye-candy such as updating
the
- title bar of an <application>Xterm</application> window are
available.</para>
+ <application>X</application>, so that some features such as the
client-server
+ model or the x11-selection (clipboard) are still available.</para>
<para><option>--without-x</option>: If you prefer not to link
<application>Vim</application> against <application>X</application>, use
@@ -205,38 +218,37 @@
<sect3 id='vim-init'>
<title>Configuration Information</title>
- <para><application>Vim-7.0</application> introduced an
- integrated spell checker that doesn't require additional libraries to be
- installed. To enable the spell checker you can set the following in
- one of the configuration files: </para>
+ <para><application>Vim</application> has an integrated spell checker
+ which you can enable it if you issue the following in a vim window:
+ </para>
-<screen><literal>set spell
-spelllang=en,ru</literal></screen>
+<screen><literal>:setlocal spell spelllang=ru</literal></screen>
+
+ <para>This setting will enable spell checking for the Russian
+ language for the current session.</para>
<para>By default, <application>Vim</application> only installs spell
- files for the English language. If a spell file is not available for
- your language, then <application>Vim</application> will call
- <filename>$VIMRUNTIME/plugin/spellfile.vim</filename> and will try to
- obtain the *.spl and optionally *.sug from the vim ftp server, using the
- <filename>$VIMRUNTIME/plugin/netrw</filename> plugin.</para>
+ files for the English language. If a spell file is not available for
+ a language, then <application>Vim</application> will call the
+ <filename>$VIMRUNTIME/plugin/spellfile.vim</filename> plugin and will try
+ to obtain the *.spl and optionally *.sug from the vim ftp server,
+ by using the <filename>$VIMRUNTIME/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim</filename>
+ plugin.</para>
<para>Alternatively you can manually download the *.spl and *.sug files
from: <ulink url="ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/"/> and save
them to <filename class="directory"> ~/.vim/spell </filename> or in
- <filename class="directory">
- /usr/share/vim/vim71/spell/</filename>.</para>
+ <filename
class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim71/spell/</filename>.</para>
- <para>For more information about the spell checker and some other
- features in <application>Vim-&vim-version;</application> (such us
- vimgrep, tab-pages, and omni-completion), issue the following command
inside
- <application>Vim</application>:</para>
+ <para>To find out what's new in
<application>Vim-&vim-version;</application>
+ issue the following command:</para>
-<screen><literal>:help version7</literal></screen>
+<screen><literal>:help version-&vim-version;</literal></screen>
<para>For additional information on setting up
<application>Vim</application> configuration files, see <xref
linkend="postlfs-config-vimrc"/> and <ulink
- url='http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.php'/>. </para>
+ url='http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.php'/>.</para>
</sect3>
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