Lost vi/vim

[bham]

Note: here's a workaround for those who want to install kvim as an
embedded text editor for KDE apps.  Just build it from source yourself
the old fashioned way:

- get source code (full source package) from
http://www.freenux.org/mirrors/kvim/download.html 

- install the following packages:

kdelibs4-dev
libqt3-mt-dev
libqt3-compat-headers
libqt3-headers
qt3-dev-tools
vimpart
kvim  (req. by vimpart - why!?)

- Fix diversion issue w/ kvim package:

$ sudo dpkg-divert --remove /usr/bin/vim

- unpack the kvim source package and cd into its src/ dir

- build kvim

$ ./configure --enable-gui=kde --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3/
--with-qt-libs=/usr/lib/qt3 --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3
--with-kde-includes=/usr/include/kde --with-vim-name=kvim
--prefix=/usr

$ make

$ sudo make install

- Open KDE control center

- Under KDE Components > Component Chooser select "Embedded Vim
Component"

- Under KDE Components > Vim Component Configuration, in the Vim
Executable Selection, enter "/usr/bin/kvim" and click on the "test"
button.  Hit "apply" or "ok".

You should have a console based vim at /usr/bin/vim and a KDE-based vim
at /usr/bin/kvim (which will be embedded in any text editor aware KDE
apps) when all is said and done.

-Brian

bham Wrote: 
> sudo dpkg-divert --remove /usr/bin/vim
> 
> Will remove the diversion..
> 
> ... I know kvim is in universe but ... When is it going to be fixed? 
> I'm trying to embed ViM inside KDevelop and its not going so well.  To
> use ViM as an embedded KDE text editor component, I have to install
> 'vimpart' which relies on some form of ViM with a GUI (kvim, gvim). 
> KDE recommends kvim so I tried to install kvim.  The issues with the
> kvim package seem to be:
> 
> - It doesn't actually provide a /usr/bin/vim
> - It diverts the existing /usr/bin/vim to /usr/bin/vim.org
> 
> How come the kvim package it doesn't provide a usable /usr/bin/vim?
> 
> As an alternative, I tried installing 'vim-gtk' and 'vimpart' ...
> KDevelop doesn't embed vim-gtk correctly.  The ViM window just shows up
> external to KDevelop.  Thus, I'd like kvim to work :-)
> 
> Any help appreciated.


-- 
bham