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34 lines
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To avoid conflicting with Slackware's elvis and vim packages, this build
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installs binaries to /opt/ex-vi/bin and man pages to /opt/ex-vi/man,
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along with a script in /etc/profile.d to prepend these paths to PATH and
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MANPATH. If you *really* want, you can replace the /usr/bin/vi symlink
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(that normally points to elvis or vim), but it shouldn't be necessary.
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After installing, either log out & back in, or "source
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/etc/profile.d/ex-vi.sh". To temporarily disable the scripts, remove
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their execute bits. Users can always set PATH and MANPATH in their own
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dotfiles, of course.
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In visual mode (vi or :vi from ex), ex-vi has compiled-in values for
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the maximum terminal size, in columns and rows. This build will support
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terminals up to 320x200 characters by default. If you get 'Terminal too
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wide' errors, make your terminal as large as possible and rebuild ex-vi
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from within it, with a command like:
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TUBECOLS=$COLUMNS TUBELINES=$LINES ./ex-vi.SlackBuild
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Exceeding the maximum line height just means vi will ignore the extra
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lines at the bottom of the screen. Note that increasing these values
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causes vi to use more memory, but on a fairly modern system it shouldn't
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be too much. If you're building for a memory-poor system (embedded, or old
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hardware), you could save memory with e.g. TUBECOLS=80 TUBELINES=25 or so.
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If you *really* need to run vi without 'Terminal too wide', you can
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export e.g. COLUMNS=80 in the environment, and vi will only use part of
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the terminal. The COLUMNS variable gets reset whenever an X terminal is
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resized (at least for most X terminal emulators).
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Thanks to zacts on Freenode IRC ##slackware for pointing out the terminal
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size limitation.
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