Q. I’m running FreBSD on an old PC and find that all the visual bells and whistles in FreeBSD X11 are really slowing things down. How do I install vim text editor under FreeBSD without using GUI (gvim) version? How do I build vim port without X11 GUI? A. You can easily build VIM without X11 under FreeBSD. First, update your ports tree, using portsnap command, enter: # portsnap fetch update Install