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| author | Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> | 2020-02-25 14:16:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2020-02-26 21:52:48 +0100 |
| commit | cae3b3774ea9905bbf6a7299c3cd964cfa48a705 (patch) | |
| tree | f63a22e93d155fd40bdaaf1040443c601c04dc62 /gnu/packages | |
| parent | 233332c2e9cb76927dd7573b24bd7cdf7afca993 (diff) | |
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gnu: vim-full: Describe differences from vim.
* gnu/packages/vim.scm (vim-full)[description]: New field. Explain what
vim-full provides over vim.
Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/vim.scm | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/vim.scm b/gnu/packages/vim.scm index 67f245b26d..a94a677b25 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/vim.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/vim.scm @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2019 HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> ;;; Copyright © 2019 Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> ;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020 Jakub Kądziołka <kuba@kadziolka.net> +;;; Copyright © 2020 Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -131,6 +132,8 @@ ("tzdata" ,tzdata-for-tests))) (home-page "https://www.vim.org/") (synopsis "Text editor based on vi") + ;; The description shares language with the vim-full package. When making + ;; changes, check if the other description also needs to be updated. (description "Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX @@ -254,7 +257,21 @@ with the editor vim."))) ("python-3" ,python) ("ruby" ,ruby) ("tcl" ,tcl) - ,@(package-inputs vim))))) + ,@(package-inputs vim))) + ;; The description shares language with the vim package. When making + ;; changes, check if the other description also needs to be updated. + (description "Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text +editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX +systems. + +Vim is often called a \"programmer's editor,\" and so useful for programming +that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. +Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing +configuration files. + +This package provides a version of Vim with many optional features enabled. +It includes a graphical interface, @command{gvim}, and support for plugins +written in the Python 3, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, and Lua programming languages."))) (define-public vim-neocomplete (package |