[maemo-users] Missing vim features in Maemo Extras

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:12:58PM +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:32:15AM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >> The vim package from Maemo Extras (7.0-0maemo1) lacks some of the
> >> features I've just discovered that I really need.  One of them is
> >> Unicode support, which, considering that UTF-8 is the Maemo native
> >> encoding, really should be there.
> >>
> >> Please, whoever maintains it (Jaffa?), could you build a 7.0-0maemo2
> >> version with --enable-multibyte passed to ./configure?
> 
> Will do. I know there were a couple of vim ports floating around and I
> think mine only got as far as extras-devel (of course, someone else
> could've promoted it).
> 
> I had intended to add a menu entry to start it in X Terminal before
> pushing it out, but never got around to it.

Heh.  I had intended to fix the version number ("70" is not a sane
version number) and get an icon before I uploaded mine to extras-devel.
I'm very happy you did that so I didn't have to.

Do you perhaps know how to get mud-builder to apply a series of patches
to a tarball?

> > While at it, it might be worthwhile to switch the upstream tarball URL
> > to point to vim-7.2.tar.bz2.  It has a couple of hundred bugfixes since
> > 7.0 was released.
> 
> No problem. Of course, patches to the mud file would be welcome ;-)
> 
>     https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/packages/vim.xml?revision=239&root=mud-builder&view=markup

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Marius Gedminas
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