Anne Wall wrote:
Oh mah gah. That's the best.
You've really encapsulated the whole deal here. Thank you, because
that's pretty excellent.
Thanks for the compliment; I used to be a teacher.
I already knew that there were about 132 patches for vim, and I
optimistically applied every single one before trying the install
the first time. That in itself was a bit silly, because I didn't
realize that some of them are platform-specific. Oy.
I'm going to give it a shot and get the other packages.
I also apply every single patch as it gets published, and I have no problem
with that (as I have downloaded the full sources, not only the "unix" and
"lang" archives but also "extra"). Any modules that I don't need (such as
Windows- or Mac-specific modules when compiling on Linux) are simply not
compiled; and the binary which I just compiled neatly displays "Included
patches: 1-144" in the output of its ":version" command.
Since (IIUC) the Unix shell expands the wildcards in lexicographic order,
after downloading all patches into (let's say) ~/.build/vim/vim70/patches/,
you can apply them (for your first v7 compile) by doing
cd ~/.build/vim/vim70
cat patches/7.0.??? | patch -p0
For incremental patching (when a few new patches are published, and you've
already applied the previous ones) it's usually easier to apply them
one-by-one: e.g., the next one will be
patch -p0 <patches/7.0.145
unless of course Vim 7.1 comes out first ;-).
Best regards,
Tony.
