Recipe 6.16. Discovering Vim's Compile-Time Options
6.16.1 Problem
You are having some
troubles with
Vim, and
you think some features you need were not compiled in. How do you
find out what options Vim was compiled with?
6.16.2 Solution
Open Vim and run:
:version
This shows all of Vim's compile-time options and
initialization file locations on your system.
6.16.3 Discussion
Here is a simplified example of what :version
output looks like. + means a feature is included;
- means excluded. Now you can easily find out if
you need to recompile Vim to enable a feature you want.
:version
VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled Apr 1 2004 23:39:33)
Included patches: 1-298, 300-426
Compiled by Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org>
Big version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent +clientserver
-hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0
-I/usr/lib/gt k-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-
-O2 -DFEAT_LANGMAP -DFEAT_KEYMAP -DF
EAT_SIGNS -DFEAT_RIGHTLEFT -I/usr/X11R6/include
Linking: gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o vim -Wl,--export-dynamic
-lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x
6.16.4 See Also
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