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   1 Vim extended is based on the official Vim from <a href="http://www.vim.org">vim.org</a>.
   2 It includes various extensions and features that didn't yet get into the
   3 official version or even won't ever. Most features had been sent as patches to
   4 the Vim mailing list.
   5 See also the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches">Vim patches</a> site.
   6
   7 <h3>Use Vim extended</h3>
   8
   9 <ul>
  10         <li>
  11                 get the whole repository over the git or HTTP protocol<br />
  12                 <pre>git clone git://repo.or.cz/vim_extended.git<br />git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/vim_extended.git</pre>
  13         </li>
  14         <li>
  15                 edit and build as usual<br />
  16                 <pre>vim; make; make install</pre>
  17         </li>
  18         <li>
  19                 get updates from the repository<br />
  20                 <pre>git pull</pre>
  21         </li>
  22 </ul>
  23
  24 <table>
  25         <tr>
  26                 <th>Branch</th>
  27                 <th>Description</th>
  28         </tr>
  29         <tr>
  30                 <td>
  31                         <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/vim_extended.git?a=blobdiff_plain;hp=vim;h=master" title="Patch against official Vim"><em>master</em></a>
  32                 </td>
  33                 <td>
  34                         Extended Vim<br />
  35                         Merges <em>vim</em> and all the other feature branches.<br />
  36                         The only modification is the --with-modified-by configure option.
  37                 </td>
  38         </tr>
  39         <tr>
  40                 <td><em>vim</em></td>
  41                 <td>
  42                         Official Vim<br />
  43                         Based on <em>https://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/branches/vim7.2</em><br />
  44                         The only modification is .gitignore and deletion of src/auto/config.{h,mk}
  45                 </td>
  46         </tr>
  47         <tr>
  48                 <td style="border-top:1px black solid;">feature branches</td>
  49                 <td style="border-top:1px black solid;">
  50                         Extensions, features, external patches<br />
  51                         Based on <em>vim</em>
  52                 </td>
  53         </tr>
  54         <tr>
  55                 <td>
  56                         <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/vim_extended.git?a=blobdiff_plain;hp=vim;h=relativenumber" title="Patch against official Vim"><em>relativenumber</em></a>
  57                 </td>
  58                 <td>
  59                         'relativenumber' option to display relative line numbers
  60                 </td>
  61         </tr>
  62         <tr>
  63                 <td>
  64                         <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/vim_extended.git?a=blobdiff_plain;hp=vim;h=floating_point" title="Patch against official Vim"><em>floating_point</em></a>
  65                 </td>
  66                 <td>
  67                         extended floating point functions
  68                 </td>
  69         </tr>
  70         <tr>
  71                 <td>
  72                         <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/vim_extended.git?a=blobdiff_plain;hp=vim;h=lua_interface" title="Patch against official Vim"><em>lua_interface</em></a>
  73                 </td>
  74                 <td>
  75                         interface to the programming language Lua
  76                 </td>
  77         </tr>
  78         <tr>
  79                 <td>
  80                         <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/vim_extended.git?a=blobdiff_plain;hp=vim;h=code_checking" title="Patch against official Vim"><em>code_checking</em></a>
  81                 </td>
  82                 <td>
  83                         on-the-fly code checker
  84                 </td>
  85         </tr>
  86 </table>