July 2008
Beginner
492 pages
16h
English
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Sources and Supported Operating Systems
The official WWW location for vile is http://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html. The ftp location is ftp://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.tar.gz. The file vile.tar.gz is always a symbolic link to the current version.
vile is written in ANSI C. It builds and runs on Unix, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, Win32 console and Win32 GUI, BeOS, QNX, and OS/2.
Compiling vile is straightforward. Retrieve the distribution via ftp or from the web page. Uncompress and untar it, run the configure program, and then run make:
$gzip -d < vile.tar.gz | tar -xvpf -... $cd vile-*; ./configure... $make...
vile should configure and
build with no problems. Use make
install to install it.
Note
If you want syntax coloring to work smoothly, you may wish to
run configure with the option
--with-builtin-filters. You should use flex (version 2.54a or newer) rather than
lex, since Unix versions of that
tool do not perform well. The configure script will also not accept a
version of flex that is too
old.
Should you need to report a bug or problem in vile, send email to the address vile@nongnu.org. This is the preferred way to report bugs. If necessary, you can contact Thomas Dickey directly at dickey@invisible-island.net.
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