Vile version 9.5 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Saturday the 7th of November, 2009

    version 9.5

      View the most recent changes for the vile port at: vile.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for vile.
      The raw portfile for vile 9.5 is located here:
      http://vile.darwinports.com/dports/editors/vile/Portfile
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      The vile Portfile 50980 2009-05-14 19:41:55Z and.damore macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0
      Name: vile
      Version: 9.5
      Category: editors
      Maintainers: waqar
      Description: Vi Like Emacs
      Long Description: vile is a text editor which is extremely compatible with vi in terms of finger feel. in addition, it has extended capabilities in many areas, notably multi-file editing and viewing, key rebinding, real X window system support, an optional embedded perl interpreter, and robust support for non-Unix hosts.
      Homepage: http://invisible-island.net/vile/
      Platform: darwin
      extract.suffix .tgz
      Master Sites: ftp://invisible-island.net/${name}/ ftp://ftp.phred.org/pub/${name}/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/editors/${name}/
      Checksums: md5 bc0049be8b4906dacc1165e04a6d29e5
      configure.args --with-perl --with-ncurses --mandir=${prefix}/share/man

    If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

    Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


      %  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/vile
      % sudo port install vile
      Password:
    You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

      ---> Fetching vile
      ---> Verifying checksum for vile
      ---> Extracting vile
      ---> Configuring vile
      ---> Building vile with target all
      ---> Staging vile into destroot
      ---> Installing vile
    - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using vile with these commands:
      %  man vile
      % apropos vile
      % which vile
      % locate vile

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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