For an impression of how Vim with the Farsi patches will look like: vim-farsi.gif. It contains a poem of HAFEZ (1300- 1389 A.D.). To implement the Farsi patch, untar the original vim-4.5 and the vim-4.5-persian-patch in a directory of your choice. Then do the followings: 0 - If the files are compressed (ending in ".gz") uncompress them with gunzip. 1 - Change to the 'vim-4.5' subdirectory and call cat whatever/vim-4.5-persian-patch | patch -p1 Note that you will get a few "line offsets". Don't worry about that. 2 - Activate the persian features, by setting the FKMAP in the src/feature.h file to true. 3 - Follow the instructions of the original vim-4.5 package for setting other preferences and making the vim. 4 - Untar the Farsi-HOWTO-Package.tar in a directory of your choice. This package contains the Farsi fonts and the font installation instruction. For more information, refer to Farsi-HOWTO-1.txt contained in the Farsi-HOWTO-Package.tar file.