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Building OG vi on Big Sur

Building OG vi on Big Sur

  1. Make sure developer tools are installed.
  2. Get the source from Freshmeat.
  3. Run tar xvfj ex-050325.tar.bz2 && cd ex-050325.
  4. Add include <sys/ioctl.h> to file ex.h.
  5. Run the following:
make install INSTALL=/usr/bin/install \
             PREFIX=${HOME}/.local/ \
             PRESERVEDIR=${HOME}/.local/var/tmp/vi.recover \
             TERMLIB=ncurses
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