Re: When started as "vim-huge --clean -? |less" the Gnome version tries (and fails) to start a GUI, then seems to hang

2018-10-12 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 5:25 PM Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > Christ van Willegen wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:44 AM Tony Mechelynck > > wrote: > > > Could it be because the g near the end of "vim-huge" is mistakenly > > > interpreted as meaning that I want to invoke gvim? > > > > I was

Re: When started as "vim-huge --clean -? |less" the Gnome version tries (and fails) to start a GUI, then seems to hang

2018-10-11 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Christ van Willegen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:44 AM Tony Mechelynck > wrote: > > Could it be because the g near the end of "vim-huge" is mistakenly > > interpreted as meaning that I want to invoke gvim? > > I was in the source and accidentally bumped into the code that does > this.

Re: When started as "vim-huge --clean -? |less" the Gnome version tries (and fails) to start a GUI, then seems to hang

2018-10-10 Fir de Conversatie Christ van Willegen
Hi Tony, On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:44 AM Tony Mechelynck wrote: > Could it be because the g near the end of "vim-huge" is mistakenly > interpreted as meaning that I want to invoke gvim? I was in the source and accidentally bumped into the code that does this. Here is the comment above that

When started as "vim-huge --clean -? |less" the Gnome version tries (and fails) to start a GUI, then seems to hang

2018-10-09 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
Invoke "vim --clean -? |less" at bash prompt in konsole. Yes, vim, not gvim; or as qualified to get to the proper binary (on my system, vim-huge for Gnome2, vim for Big GTK2 without Gnome, vim-small for Motif, or vi for no GUI; all these are the names of ELF executables [not symlinks] in