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> Here you can find a brief overview of how the <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> editor is
      packaged in Debian and a few concepts useful later; if you are
      just interested in the guidelines for packaging addons skip to
      <A
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>. </P
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> The <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> editor is split in Debian as several binary
      packages. The key splitting is according to variants, a <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
>
      <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="emphasis"
>variant</I
></SPAN
> is a particular version of the
      <TT
CLASS="filename"
>/usr/bin/vim</TT
> executable built with a given
      set of (<SPAN
CLASS="application"
>configure</SPAN
>) option. Examples of
      variants provided in Debian are: <A
HREF="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/vim-tiny"
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><SPAN
CLASS="application"
>vim-tiny</SPAN
></A
>,
      <A
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><SPAN
CLASS="application"
>vim</SPAN
></A
>,
      <A
HREF="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/vim-nox"
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><SPAN
CLASS="application"
>vim-nox</SPAN
></A
>,
      <A
HREF="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/vim-gtk"
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><SPAN
CLASS="application"
>vim-gtk</SPAN
></A
>.
      Have a look at their full descriptions for their characteristics.
      The actual <TT
CLASS="filename"
>/usr/bin/vim</TT
> file is managed via
      the alternative mechanism and point to one of the variants.
    </P
><P
> Another relevant binary package is <A
HREF="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/vim-runtime"
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><SPAN
CLASS="application"
>vim-runtime</SPAN
></A
>
      which ships the <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> runtime environment distributed upstream together
      with the editor. Almost all third party extensions to <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> come as
      additional pieces of this runtime environment, how to package them is the
      main topic of this document. </P
><P
> To be working properly extensions should be located somewhere where
      <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> can find them. This "somewhere" is expressed in <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> as a list of
      directories to be looked for in turn when looking for extensions. Such a
      list is the <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="emphasis"
><SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> runtime path</I
></SPAN
>, and is kept in the
      <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> global variable <CODE
CLASS="envar"
>runtimepath</CODE
>; you can inspect it
      executing <B
CLASS="command"
>:set runtimepath</B
> inside <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
>. See <A
HREF="http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'runtimepath'"
TARGET="_top"
><B
CLASS="command"
>:help
	  'runtimepath'</B
></A
> in the <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> online help for more
      information, including the relevant subdirectories which <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>Vim</SPAN
> will look
      for inside <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="emphasis"
>each</I
></SPAN
> component of the runtime path.
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