For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Vim-6.2 in Chapter 6.
(Last checked against version 6.1.)
The Vim package contains a configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.
Vim installs the following:
efm_filter.pl, efm_perl.pl, ex (link to vim), less.sh, mve.awk, pltags.pl, ref, rview (link to vim), rvim (link to vim), shtags.pl, tcltags, vi (link to vim), view (link to vim), vim, vim132, vim2html.pl, vimdiff (link to vim), vimm, vimspell.sh, vimtutor and xxd
emacs, joe and nano
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/postlfs/editors.html
(Last checked against version 6.1.)
efm_filter.pl is a filter which reads from stdin, copies to stdout and creates an error file that can be read by vim.
efm_perl.pl reformats the error messages of the Perl interpreter for use with the quickfix mode of vim.
ex starts vim in Ex mode.
less.sh is a script which starts vim with less.vim.
mve.awk processes vim errors.
pltags.pl creates a tags file for Perl code, for use by vim.
ref checks the spelling of arguments.
rview is a restricted version of view. No shell commands can be started and vim can't be suspended.
rvim is the restricted version of vim. No shell commands can be started and vim can't be suspended.
shtags.pl generates a tag file for perl scripts.
tcltags generates a tag file for Tcl code.
vi starts vim in vi-compatible mode.
view starts vim in read-only mode.
vim starts vim in the normal, default way.
vim132 starts vim with the terminal in 132 column mode.
vim2html.pl converts vim documentation to HTML.
vimdiff edits two or three versions of a file with vim and show differences.
vimm enables the DEC locator input model on a remote terminal.
vimspell.sh is a script which spells a file and generates the syntax statements necessary to highlight in vim.
vimtutor starts the Vim tutor.
xxd makes a hexdump or does the reverse.
(Last checked against version 6.0.)
Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld, strip
Coreutils: cat, chmod, cp, echo, expr, ln, mkdir, mv, rm, touch, tr,
uname, wc, whoami
Diffutils: cmp, diff
Find: find
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Net-tools: hostname
Sed: sed