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Re: Updated: vim-6.2-1
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:44:00PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote:
> The problem is: what GUI?
Exactly.
> An X-based GUI would be an option, but that would require you to run an
> X server, such as Cygwin-XFree, whenever you want to run gvim. (Also,
> to have a decent looking GUI, you'd need some GUI toolkit like GTK
> available.)
No problem. I did already compile gvim with gtk. Looks ok, is
usable and would probably be a nice addition to our Cygwin/XFree86
packages.
> Somewhere deep down on my rainy day list is a plan to port the Win32 GUI
> to the UNIX (./configure; make) based vim build. (With some cygwin path
> conversion functions inserted here and there, so that the dialog boxes
> use Win32 paths, as they have to, but within gvim, Posix paths are
> used.) Don't hold your breath though, and if someone beats me to it,
> great! :-)
Not me ;-) I have no idea what gvim is actually good for.
The non-GUI version runs very nicely inside of xterm or rxvt,
so what? <-- just a rethorical question
Corinna
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