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- *workshop.txt* For Vim version 6.0. Last change: 2001 Sep 03
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- VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Gordon Prieur
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- Sun Visual WorkShop Features *workshop* *workshop-support*
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- 1. Introduction |workshop-intro|
- 2. Commands |workshop-commands|
- 3. Compiling vim/gvim for WorkShop |workshop-compiling|
- 4. Configuring gvim for a WorkShop release tree |workshop-configure|
- 5. Obtaining the latest version of the XPM library |workshop-xpm|
-
- {Vi does not have any of these features}
- {only available when compiled with the |+sun_workshop| feature}
-
- ==============================================================================
- 1. Introduction *workshop-intro*
-
- Sun Visual WorkShop has an "Editor of Choice" feature designed to let users
- debug using their favorite editors. For the 6.0 release we have added support
- for gvim. A workshop debug session will have a debugging window and an editor
- window (possibly others as well). The user can do many debugging operations
- from the editor window, minimizing the need to switch from window to window.
-
- The version of vim shipped with Sun Visual WorkShop 6 (also called Forte
- Developer 6) is vim 5.3. The features in this release are much more reliable
- than the vim/gvim shipped with Visual WorkShop. VWS users wishing to use vim
- as their editor should compile these sources and install them in their
- workshop release tree.
-
- ==============================================================================
- 2. Commands *workshop-commands*
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- *:ws* *:wsverb*
- :ws[verb] verb Pass the verb to the verb executor
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- Pass the verb to a workshop function which gathers some arguments and
- sends the verb and data to workshop over an IPC connection.
-
- ==============================================================================
- 3. Compiling vim/gvim for WorkShop *workshop-compiling*
-
- Compiling vim with FEAT_SUN_WORKSHOP turns on all compile time flags necessary
- for building a vim to work with Visual WorkShop. The features required for VWS
- have been built and tested using the Sun compilers from the VWS release. They
- have not been built or tested using Gnu compilers. This does not mean the
- features won't build and run if compiled with gcc, just that nothing is
- guaranteed with gcc!
-
- ==============================================================================
- 4. Configuring gvim for a WorkShop release tree *workshop-configure*
-
- There are several assumptions which must be met in order to compile a gvim for
- use with Sun Visual WorkShop 6.
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- o You should use the compiler in VWS rather than gcc. We have neither
- built nor tested with gcc and cannot guarantee it will build properly.
-
- o You must supply your own XPM library. See |workshop-xpm| below for
- details on obtaining the latest version of XPM.
-
- o Edit the Makefile in the src directory and uncomment the lines for Sun
- Visual WorkShop. You can easily find these by searching for the string
- FEAT_SUN_WORKSHOP
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- o We also suggest you use Motif for your gui. This will provide gvim with
- the same look-and-feel as the rest of Sun Visual WorkShop.
-
- The following configuration line can be used to configure vim to build for use
- with Sun Visual WorkShop:
-
- $ CC=cc configure --enable-workshop --enable-gui=motif \
- -prefix=<VWS-install-dir>/contrib/contrib6/<vim-version>
-
- The VWS-install-dir should be the base directory where your Sun Visual WorkShop
- was installed. By default this is /opt/SUNWspro. It will normally require
- root permissions to install the vim release. You will also need to change the
- symlink <VWS-install-dir>/bin/gvim to point to the vim in your newly installed
- directory. The <vim-version> should be a unique version string. I use "vim"
- concatenated with the equivalent of version.h's VIM_VERSION_SHORT.
-
- ==============================================================================
- 5. Obtaining the latest version of the XPM library *workshop-xpm*
-
- The XPM library is required to show images within Vim. Without it the toolbar
- and signs will be disabled.
-
- The XPM library is provide by Arnaud Le Hors of the French National Institute
- for Research in Computer Science and Control. It can be downloaded from
- ftp://koala.inria.fr/pub/xpm. The current release, as of this writing, is
- xpm-3.4k-solaris.tgz, which is a gzip'ed tar file. If you create the directory
- /usr/local/xpm and untar the file there you can use the uncommented lines in
- the Makefile without changing them. If you use another xpm directory you will
- need to change the XPM_DIR in src/Makefile.
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