Want to install "vi" on your Puppy?

[SimonW]

The classic editor! You'll need to compile it, so you'll need the devx sfs too, but if you take the following source:
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefo ... 25.tar.bz2

Edit the Makefile to suit (it's too early to have a configure script) ; make ; make install.

Also install the following file in /etc/termcap:
http://www.ambienteto.arti.benicultural ... termcap.gz

Then it works well. You can log in remotely to your Puppy box and edit files!

The executable is only 226kb and the termcap is 9300 bytes approx.

I can't make pets or pup files yet but perhaps someone else will.

[wdef]

Even better - let's have vim (vi improved) in the base system!!

It's absolutely mandatory on any system (so I thought)- except it seems - Puppy.

I'm just not into these weird newfangled cli editors. Nup, nosiree.

[Gn2]

Ooops - Here it goesAGAIN - the " Why no VI - Emacs- Vim-me ridged alternates, "EX. (eh Mac) & gooey is gooder gratings.

Puppy was targeted to NEW to Linux users - not hard-core 'nix
afficiendo-dos

[wdef]

And e3 is good for beginners? Bah.

Anyway, if it's a tired discussion let's not have it.

I'll just install vim myself.

[Gn2]

Sounds like an excellent concept - (installing for selves)
E3 asides not-withstanding

Conversely - it is rather insouciant to assume anything - & dismiss off-handedly. when not aware

VIM is highly desirable , I.E. IF a user knows how code -
Esp. in conjunction to use w/Ruby/Python, for formatting assists;
Indentation > automated interpreted language functions etal.

Again, that usage was not AFAIK - the targeted Puppy base of users

[HairyWill]

There is a vim.pup here
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/qemupuppy/index.html#7.0.0
I seem to have a dotpet of 7.0 sitting in my downloads as well that is 6MB I'm not quite sure where it came from.

<humour>
http://www.softpanorama.org/Editors/Vim ... umor.shtml
</humour>

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks HW, I'm downloading it (vim) now. If it's too arcane for anyone there's a good add-on program called Cream withich works on top of GVim and gives a number of additional features including an easy editing mode and a range of "themes" giving different colour choices for the text and background.

[wdef]

@HairyWill:

That dotpup is just the ticket, thx.

[nayanajith]

Download divx from
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributio ... vx_216.sfs

mount it at boot time. use "BootManager configure bootup" tool in puppy "system" menu

to do that or install with the procedure given bellow (warning: if you install it you cant remove it)

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1. mount the partition that Puppy is installed to (say /mnt/hda2).
2. Copy devx_2xx.sfs to /mnt/hda2/tmp.
3. # cd /mnt/hda2/tmp
4. # losetup /dev/loop2 devx_2xx.sfs
5. # mkdir mntpt
5. # mount -t squashfs /dev/loop2 mntpt
6. # cp -a --remove-destination mntpt/* /mnt/hda2/
7. # sync
8. # umount mntpt
9. # rmdir mntpt
10 # cd /
11 # umount /mnt/hda2

download vim -7.1 source from
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.1.tar.bz2
unpack the source

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tar -xjvf vim-7.1.tar.bz2

go to source directory

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./configure
make 
make install 

Thats it....., it worked for me...

[wb0gaz]

Just a quick note - the procedure outlined by nayanajith above works fine for me with Puppy 3.01. I came to this solution after trying the .pup install mentioned elsewhere, as the .pup file was not readable (error message about corruption) under Puppy 3.01.

Very happy to have vim in place!

Thanks, nayanajith

Dave

[afto]

Puppy newbie here. Sure would like to have vim / gvim running under Puppy 3.01. Can someone provide a link or suggestion for a Linux / Puppy newbie?

Many thanks,

Afto

[helios]

Hi there,

Have vim installed for programming practice, feels good and handsome. Yet I fail to get the keys on the NumLock works. So, I add the following lines to .vimrc

set t_K6=^[Ok
set t_K7=^[Om
set t_K8=^[Oo
set t_K9=^[Oj
set t_KA=^[OM
set t_KB=^[On
set t_KC=^[Op
set t_KD=^[Oq
set t_KE=^[Or
set t_KF=^[Os
set t_KG=^[Ot
set t_KH=^[Ou
set t_KI=^[Ov
set t_KJ=^[Ow
set t_KK=^[Ox
set t_KL=^[Oy

Well, actually it works in GUI mode. But when I run vim from command line, it just gives me some letters rather than numbers.

Is it something related to the terminal? If I use :set term=ansi , it works but then it creates other problems. The syntax is off, need to use h,j,k,l instead of the arrow keys, etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Helios

[paulh177]

I tried the slackware vim using the Gslapt slackware package manager for Puppy http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21908 and it worked flawlessly, although it is huge.

[helios]

hi paulh177,

I would have no complains even though I cannot use the number keys. So, I am not sure whether it worth the extra space or not. Thanks anyway. ^.^

[cklammer]

Download divx from
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributio ... vx_216.sfs

mount it at boot time. use "BootManager configure bootup" tool in puppy "system" menu

to do that or install with the procedure given bellow (warning: if you install it you cant remove it)

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1. mount the partition that Puppy is installed to (say /mnt/hda2).
2. Copy devx_2xx.sfs to /mnt/hda2/tmp.
3. # cd /mnt/hda2/tmp
4. # losetup /dev/loop2 devx_2xx.sfs
5. # mkdir mntpt
5. # mount -t squashfs /dev/loop2 mntpt
6. # cp -a --remove-destination mntpt/* /mnt/hda2/
7. # sync
8. # umount mntpt
9. # rmdir mntpt
10 # cd /
11 # umount /mnt/hda2

download vim -7.1 source from
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.1.tar.bz2
unpack the source

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tar -xjvf vim-7.1.tar.bz2

go to source directory

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./configure
make 
make install 

Thats it....., it worked for me...

It also works with devx_400.sfs mounted under Dingo (4.00) ... no hassle at all.

[cklammer]

The classic editor! You'll need to compile it, so you'll need the devx sfs too, but if you take the following source:
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefo ... 25.tar.bz2

Edit the Makefile to suit (it's too early to have a configure script) ; make ; make install.

Also install the following file in /etc/termcap:
http://www.ambienteto.arti.benicultural ... termcap.gz

Then it works well. You can log in remotely to your Puppy box and edit files!

The executable is only 226kb and the termcap is 9300 bytes approx.

I can't make pets or pup files yet but perhaps someone else will.

Okay for me using devx_400 under Dingo (4.00) .. Only one issue:

in /etc/profile you have comment out the line

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alias vi e3vi

New:

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#alias vi e3vi

otherwise it will keep using e3.