vim, with colors (extras/vim.sh)

SYNOPSIS

wrenctl install vim                     install it
wrenctl remove vim                      remove it (vim-tiny stays; a ~/.vimrc of your own too)
wrenctl manual vim                      print the manual steps below

vim FILE                                open FILE (vi does the same)
  i  type text   Esc  stop typing   :w  save   :q  quit   :wq  both   u  undo

Debian comes with vim-tiny, which shows every file in one color; this installs Debian's full vim, which colors the code of every language it knows (shell, Python, C, JavaScript, HTML, Markdown and hundreds more), and writes ~/.vimrc (data/vimrc) unless you have one of your own: colors and indenting by file type, a light or dark background as Wren Linux's theme is (theme light, theme dark), search highlighting, line numbers, and modelines off, so settings hidden inside a file you open are ignored (crafted files have used them to run commands). Wren Linux rewrites that file while its first line says Wren Linux wrote it; change the line and it is yours.

LIMITS

• The colors come from your terminal's palette (foot's, which the theme sets), so they look like the rest of the terminal.
• With a ~/.vimrc of your own, Wren Linux doesn't touch it: add syntax on and filetype plugin indent on for the colors.
• Plugins you add yourself run as you, with everything you can reach.

MANUAL INSTALL

# Debian's full vim (vim-tiny stays; vi and vim start the full one now)
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends vim
# Wren Linux's settings, if you have no ~/.vimrc of your own
[ -e ~/.vimrc ] || install -m 0644 @WREN_DIR@/data/vimrc ~/.vimrc

To undo:

rm ~/.vimrc      # only if it is Wren Linux's (its first line says so)
sudo apt purge vim
sudo apt autoremove --purge