Re: [bug? doc clarification?] starting position of cursor

Am 2014-09-02 22:43, schrieb Tim Chase:
> PS: I see that you too are running on Debian. I'm curious how you
> have your machine set up to run Vim and develop it? Do you have the
> vim package installed, and then also occasionally build Vim from
> source? And if building your main vim from source, to where do you
> install it?

Basically, that is what I am doing. I have cloned the repository into my
home
directory. Then I installed all necessary packages by issuing the
command:
apt-get build-dep vim-gtk

Every now and then, when I think enough patches have been accumulated
(or a certain bug has been fixed), I compile and install my own Vim
using
something like this:

#v+
cd ~/code/vim/src
./configure --with-features=huge --prefix=/home/chrisbra/local
--enable-gui=gtk2
make
make install
#v-

For developing, I usually do not install the binary, I just leave it
in vim/src and test my patches there.

So besides installing my own version which usually come first in my
$PATH, I have a whole bunch of other vim flavors installed like
vim-gnome, vim-tiny, vim-gtk and I can test a certain behaviour with
the older versions by calling /usr/bin/vim.flavor (where flavor is one
of gtk,gnome,tiny, etc and is installed there by the Debian packages).

This is however nothing, I would do on a productive server, as
installing the build-dependencies might install a whole lot of other
packages and plus you need to have admin to be allowed to install
packages.

> I'd enjoy running something slightly more recent than
> what comes out of the box in Debian Stable, but not enough to
> overcome the inertia of shrugging and accepting whatever comes out of
> the box with Debian Stable.

As an alternative to building it yourself, you might want to use
backports.
Oh no, they don't have a newer package there for wheezy. Oh Well, that
basically leaves you with self-compiling locally.


Kind regards,
Christian

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