Modified Makefile for vi

Juhapekka Tolvanen
http://iki.fi/juhtolv
juhtolv (at) iki (dot) fi


I modified Makefile of vi (maintained by Gunnar Ritter) in order to make it
more suitable for users of GNU Stow.

http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

Modified things can be easily found, if you look for character string ”XXX”
or use utility called ”diff”.

First you need to get sourcecode of vi via this WWW-site:

http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/

Compiling goes like this. I used sourcepackage ex-050325.tar.bz2 . If you
use some other version, change version number in following commands and in
the beginning of Makefile.

Usage:

1) Unpack ex-050325.tar.bz2

2) cd ex-050325

3) Subtitute original Makefile with mine:
cp -f (SOME PATH)Makefile-ex-050325-juhtolv Makefile

4) You may want to edit config.h in order to avoid error message
”Terminal too wide”:

Open up some terminal emulator with smallest font you still can read. Make
it fullscreen. Then run command ”resize” in it. Output should be something
like this:

COLUMNS=179;
LINES=76;
export COLUMNS LINES;

Then pay attention to these lines in config.h :

#ifndef VMUNIX
#define TUBELINES       70      /* Number of screen lines for visual */
#define TUBECOLS        160     /* Number of screen columns for visual */
#define TUBESIZE        6000    /* Maximum screen size for visual */
#else   /* VMUNIX */
#define TUBELINES       100
#define TUBECOLS        160
#define TUBESIZE        16000
#endif  /* VMUNIX */

VMUNIX has been defined in Makefile. Let's round 179 COLUMNS to 190 COLUMNS
and 76 LINES to 100 LINES. 190 times 100 is 19000 . Let's round it to 20000.
Hence, I change those lines to this:

#ifndef VMUNIX
#define TUBELINES       70      /* Number of screen lines for visual */
#define TUBECOLS        160     /* Number of screen columns for visual */
#define TUBESIZE        6000    /* Maximum screen size for visual */
#else   /* VMUNIX */
#define TUBELINES       100
#define TUBECOLS        190
#define TUBESIZE        20000
#endif  /* VMUNIX */

Also these could be modified, but maybe it's no use:

/*
 * Various buffer sizes.
 */
#ifndef VMUNIX
#define ESIZE           128     /* Regular expression buffer size */
#define RHSSIZE         256     /* Size of rhs of substitute */
#define TAGSIZE         128     /* Tag length */
#define ONMSZ           64      /* Option name size */
#else   /* VMUNIX */
#define ESIZE           1024
#define RHSSIZE         512
#define TAGSIZE         256
#define ONMSZ           256
#endif  /* VMUNIX */



5) Run make:
make

6) Run these commands as root:

mkdir /usr/local/stow/ex-050325
chmod ugo+rx,go-w /usr/local/stow/ex-050325
cd (SOME PATH TO SOURCE DIRECTORY)
make install
cd /usr/local/stow
chmod -R ugo+rX,go-w ex-050325
stow ex-050325

That’s all. Now you have the original and traditional but well-maintained
and modernized vi. You may want see my vi-settings, too:

http://iki.fi/juhtolv/configs/vi/

Seeing man-pages of this vi may need these command:

man -l /usr/local/stow/ex-050325/share/man/man1/vi.1
man -l /usr/local/stow/ex-050325/share/man/man1/ex.1

edit.1 is just a symbolic pointing to ex.1. vedit.1 and view.1 are just
symbolic links pointing to vi.1 .

If you want deinstall whole damn thing, run these command as root:

cd /usr/local/stow
stow -D ex-050325

Now command ”vi” will not run that binary. If you want to remove all files,
just delete the whole directory:

rm -rf ex-050325


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