Re: BLFS-12.3, ch. "Vim-9.1.1166": questionable statement in "Installation of Vim / Note"

On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 18:21 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 6/2/25 3:04 PM, Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> > The following statement in above mentioned Note is not quite correct, I
> > think:
> > 
> > "If you recompile Vim to link against X and your X libraries are not on
> > the root partition, you will no longer have an editor for use in
> > emergencies."
> > 
> > Even if Vim cannot be used, there still would be *sed*, at least in an
> > LFS/BLFS-system.  And in an emergency sed might be enough to save your
> > day - if you think of that possibility.  So I think that sed should be
> > mentioned in the Note, like in
> > 
> > "...you will no longer have an editor other than sed for use in
> > emergencies."
> > 
> > Alternatively, "editor" should be defined more clearly.
> 
> I need to update vim to sync with LFS anyway, so I'll clarify at that time.

Technically we can also use awk -i inplace or patch (someone can
manually write a patch if they know how it works and have some spare
time) or bash or Python scripts etc.  Or just another editor installed
like Ed.

And today BLFS uses a merged-usr scheme, thus it's highly likely X
libraries are just in the root partition (unless a partition is mounted
on /opt and XORG_PREFIX is /opt/X11).

So maybe this should be just reworded to "you'll no longer be able to
use Vim if the X libraries are broken or inaccessible."

-- 
Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

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