Announcement: I've tentatively uploaded my current vim binary. Here are the
details and caveats:
- ":version" output is at
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/version.txt -- check this first
before you attempt to download the executable.
- executable is at http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/vim -- to
download it, you will probably have to click right on this link, then "Save
Link Target As..." or whatever your mailer calls it.
- This is a "huge" Linux/i86 version with GTK2/Gnome GUI and support for perl,
python, ruby and tcl, compiled on openSUSE 10.2. If you think it's overly
bloated (and you quite well may), well, compile your own then: see e.g. my
"how-to" page http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm
- I compiled it about one and a half hours ago to the latest patchlevel
(7.0.235), plus one additional (unnumbered) patch by Bram Moolenaar to fix the
'maxmemtot' default value.
- This is a "naked" executable with no runtime files, no message translations
and no ancillary programs (such as xxd). You will have to get all that from a
different source such as ftp.vim.org, and keep them up-to-date yourself. This
executable expects to find its runtime files starting at the default location,
/usr/local/share/vim/vim70
- GNOME support, which is included, is *not* recommended by Bram. Warnings in
the compilation of gui_gtk_x11.c seem to indicate that there "might" be
problems with message translations, especially if you change the 'encoding'
setting in your vimrc.
- It works on my machine with the software I have installed. I don't know if
it will work on yours, so:
- you may want to keep (under another name or path) a backup Vim executable
which you got somewhere else, at least until you've verified that you can use
this one.
- I don't know exactly how much your system must resemble mine in order to
be able to run this executable. I think the GUI won't run without GTK2 and
Gnome2, and I don't know if this editor version will load without perl,
python, ruby and tcl. You may want to check the bottom part of my ":version"
text for other library names.
- if it doesn't work for you, and you cannot make it work by (for instance)
installing missing libraries, you may want to discuss symptoms with me, either
on the vim-dev list if you think it's on-topic for the list, or by private
mail. In the latter case, please use an explicit "Subject" line because if I
don't recognise an email's Subject I treat it as spam; and I get a lot of spam.
Happy Vimming!
Tony.
--
For years a secret shame destroyed my peace --
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
-- Justin Richardson.
