If you don't like vim to be installed as an editor on the LFS system, you may want to download an alternative and install an editor you prefer. There are a few hints how to install different editors available at &hints-root;. The hints which are currently available are for Emacs, Joe and nano. Install Vim by running the following commands: sed '/shUntil\|link shRepeat/{    /shUntil/N    /^/i\    if exists("b:is_kornshell") || exists("b:is_bash")    p    /$/i\    endif    d    }' runtime/syntax/sh.vim > sh.vim.fixed && mv sh.vim.fixed runtime/syntax/sh.vim && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\" && make install && cd /usr/bin && ln -sf vim vi If you plan on installing the X Window system on your LFS system, you might want to re-compile Vim after you have installed X. Vim comes with a nice GUI version of the editor which requires X and a few other libraries to be installed. For more information read the Vim documentation. The FHS says that editors like vim should use /var/lib/<editor> for their temporary state files, like temporary save files for example. If you wish vim to conform to the FHS, you should use this command set instead of the one presented above: sed '/shUntil\|link shRepeat/{    /shUntil/N    /^/i\    if exists("b:is_kornshell") || exists("b:is_bash")    p    /$/i\    endif    d    }' runtime/syntax/sh.vim > sh.vim.fixed && mv sh.vim.fixed runtime/syntax/sh.vim && ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/lib/vim && make CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\" && make install && cd /usr/bin && ln -sf vim vi