Vim and gVim

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

Corinna,

I would like to change how we are handling the vim/gvim installation.

gvim.exe still includes the terminal interface, and will use it if 
$DISPLAY is unset or if called as vim, except that it accepts the '-g' 
argument.  (Same goes for view/vimdiff/rvim/rview).  This becomes 
important where vim is run from a script, an example of which is 
$VIMRUNTIME/macros/less.sh:

$ alias vless='/usr/share/vim/vim72/macros/less.sh'
$ vless README
[works]
$ vless -g README
E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time

If gvim is installed, it would be nice to have that work.  emacs has the 
same issue, so I suggest we use the same solution:

1) build/install vim.exe as vim-nox.exe;
2) ship symlinks ex and vi to vim-nox.exe (as I don't think GUI versions 
of these two make any sense);
3) ship the attached postinst/prerm scripts in the vim package, which 
will use alternatives create symlinks for vim/view/rvim/rview. 
(Consequently, alternatives will be an added dependency.)

I will then rebuild gvim with similar alternatives usage, with a higher 
rank so that it takes priority when installed.

Thoughts?


Yaakov
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