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Lesson 1: Assignment 3Post your progress. Use the homework form to let us know what you did and how you made things work for your particular Linux installation. HOMEWORK: ...if you're feeling particularly verbose or proud of yourself, THIS is the place to summarize (in "homework") how you've done so far. The really fun stuff hasn't even started yet, though, so unless you have something important to share (how you solved the problem on a particular distro, for example) just go ahead and dive into the source code. You're almost there! Homework Submissions27 total
Cloned MacVim's source code from Github Comments:
cool! There shouldn't be too much difference using git instead of mercurial. Let me know if anything trips you up. 
Installed mercurial and cloned vim repo (ubuntu 11.10) No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
This is great!!! the first lesson was easy, I really want to go deep in vim source code. No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
Installed on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. No major issues, except had to install libncurses-dev No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
No problem on "Ubuntu 11.04". No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
I did have some problems with instalation, but already I go to forward, I hope learn more of my editor favorite. Thanks for the course. P.D: I speak spanish, so that they have patience, thanks Comments:
Nos podemos conversar en espanol si es mas facil para ti. I speak spanish too! :-)
Me parece, aunque tambien me parece bueno conversar en ingles, asi voy a prendiendo. I think, altough also I think good speak in english, so I'm learning 
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Not a whole lot of activity, but I'm going to just dive into this. Thanks for keeping it available to users. Installed mercurial from Arch's extra/ repo, downloaded the PKGBUILD for idutils from the AUR and issued 'makepkg -i' to make and install. Reminds me that I should be using Slack or something source-based. No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
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The Mercurial works good on RH Fedora 12, it's available as Fedora's package (rpm) though, installing is as easy as:
*Right now, I've been reading Brian O' Mercurial:TDG. For id-utils, I had to build it from a source, since Fedora does not have id-utils distribution ready on package. No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
A little too easy on Ubuntu 10.4. I may just have to wipe and install FreeBSD or Slackware in the near future. No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
In "Ubuntu 9.04" jaunty everything fine. No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
worked in ubuntu 9.10 No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
Just ran the commands! :D sudo pacman -Sy mercurial yaourt -S idutils hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim Comments:
Thanks for the synopsis of the commands for your platform. Arch linux, right? Looking forward to your posts on upcoming assignments.
Yup, Arch Linux. 
followed all instructions, no problems so far, platform is ubuntu 9.10 No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
Using Arch Linux here and everything went fine. Comments:
Outstanding. There are a few Arch Linux users already in the course that kind of paved the way for you. Good to have you aboard! Looking forward to your contributions to the exploratory efforts. 
No hiccups once I found the right packages for my distro. I've been a longtime vim user (10+ yrs) but never really dug into the code so this looks to be informative. No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
No problems on Debian Lenny No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
so far so good No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
i'm on mac :p 
worked great using ubuntu 9.04 No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
I installed mercurial through the Arch Linux repository by using the yaourt package manager wrapper. After doing that, downloading the vim repository was just a simple hg clone away. Didn't require any tricky operations. No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
No issues fetching the code. No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
Worked accordingly in Gentoo 10 and Mint. No difficulties at all (yet...:) No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
instructions worked as described for ubuntu 9.04 
Nothing here... I was always a bit disapointed by the vim scripting environment and reading this only made it worse. I would really like to port vim to use tinycc, and convert all the 'useful' vim scripts to pure c. Then just compile them on demand. So, no performance hit for scripting and well known language...with all the normal c problems Comments:
I'm an ex-Emacs-junkie myself. Some 20+ years ago, I helped with the development of the C-MU emacs which Richard later "recoded" into todays emacs. I hacked on emacs' C code, its e-lisp code, and even helped populate the help texts which were the precursor to what you see today when you say 'info emacs'. Emacs rocks, but there's a reason why its X-icon is a "kitchen sink" - indeed, it's HUGE and laden with boatloads of stuff you'll probably never even use. Did you know you can successfully replace "init" on Linux with emacs? Use emacs as a communications-hub style server? That it'll play 'towers of hanoi' with you? It'll also psycho-analyze you if you let it. Not joking. So emacs is great; it's really useful for some needs. But it's large enough that there's NO way I could possibly address even a small portion of it in a month-long course such as this one. Regarding making Vim smaller; I would recommend instead you focus on Linux's "micro-editor", nano; it already fills that niche quite nicely. To recap:
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