configure editors/vim

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 13 23:58:46 PDT 2007


On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:01:22PM +0200, Gergely Sánta wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm a developer using gvim with it's tagging through exctags (somehow ctags 
> never worked for me). As vim port have no configuration options, it can't 
> be configured easyly through 'make config'. I'm too lazy for digging 
> Makefile for options every time I compile new version of vim, I added 
> configuration options to Makefile.
> I'm new to FreeBSD, also to it's Ports, so maybe I don't see the reasons, 
> these options aren't in the Makefile, but maybe they should be there. 
> Anyway, I attach my change, maybe it will be acceptable to have it's way to 
> ports. And if not, maybe it will help for someone else too :)

It's interesting to hear that from a vim (power?) user :)
Personally I resent dialog(1) because it's so much faster, more
hassle-free and convenient to edit make.conf(5) with vim.


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