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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
   6 <h3>Use Vim extended</h3>
   7
   8 <ul>
   9         <li>
  10                 get the whole repository over the git or HTTP protocol<br />
  11                 <pre>git clone git://repo.or.cz/vim_extended.git<br />git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/vim_extended.git</pre>
  12         </li>
  13         <li>
  14                 update src/auto/configure because of lua_interface<br />
  15                 <pre>make -C src autoconf</pre>
  16         </li>
  17         <li>
  18                 edit and build as usual<br />
  19                 <pre>vim; make; make install</pre>
  20         </li>
  21         <li>
  22                 get updates from the repository<br />
  23                 <pre>git pull</pre>
  24         </li>
  25 </ul>
  26
  27 <table>
  28         <tr>
  29                 <th>Branch</th>
  30                 <th>Description</th>
  31         </tr>
  32         <tr>
  33                 <td>
  34                         <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>
  35                 </td>
  36                 <td>
  37                         Extended Vim<br />
  38                         Merges <em>vim</em> and all the other feature branches.<br />
  39                         The only modification is the --with-modified-by configure option.
  40                 </td>
  41         </tr>
  42         <tr>
  43                 <td><em>vim</em></td>
  44                 <td>
  45                         Official Vim<br />
  46                         Based on <em>https://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/branches/vim7.2</em><br />
  47                         The only modification is .gitignore and deletion of src/auto/config.{h,mk}
  48                 </td>
  49         </tr>
  50         <tr>
  51                 <td style="border-top:1px black solid;">feature branches</td>
  52                 <td style="border-top:1px black solid;">
  53                         Extensions, features, external patches<br />
  54                         Based on <em>vim</em>
  55                 </td>
  56         </tr>
  57         <tr>
  58                 <td>
  59                         <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>
  60                 </td>
  61                 <td>
  62                         'relativenumber' option to display relative line numbers
  63                 </td>
  64         </tr>
  65         <tr>
  66                 <td>
  67                         <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>
  68                 </td>
  69                 <td>
  70                         extended floating point functions
  71                 </td>
  72         </tr>
  73         <tr>
  74                 <td>
  75                         <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>
  76                 </td>
  77                 <td>
  78                         interface to the programming language Lua
  79                 </td>
  80         </tr>
  81         <tr>
  82                 <td>
  83                         <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>
  84                 </td>
  85                 <td>
  86                         on-the-fly code checker
  87                 </td>
  88         </tr>
  89 </table>