Thanks Bram for re-enabling +rightleft +arabic! I'll still be compiling 5 builds of Vim, some of them as a sanity test for various compile-time featuresets, as follows: • vi: a minimum build with as few features as possible and in particular -eval and no GUI • vim-small: a build with -eval but with Motif GUI • vim-normal: the Normal featureset, with GTK3 GUI • vim: a build (formerly Big, now described as Huge) with GTK3 GUI and with +keymap +langmap +rightleft +arabic +autoservername but with no interpreted languages • vim-huge: a Huge build with GTK3 GUI and as many features as I can find how to add, and in particular with several interpreted languages
A +gui build and a minimum "vi" build from my distro are also installed, and there is no conflict with the above, but I rarely use them. They are there as a fallback, for instance for the case when there is a big change in the OS, I should have run "make reconfig" on Vim to catch changes in the libraries and include files, forgot to do it, and suddenly my own-compiled Vim gets a startup crash at every run. I think that the "typical user" might want to choose one or two of the above configurations, or similar ones, but of course there are other possibilities and Your Mileage May Vary: one of the great pluses of Vim (in addition to its full documentation) is IMHO that it is not a corset: different users can arrive at the same result by different paths and among others with different successions of keystrokes. To save wall clock time when compiling, rather than giving Make a -j argument (which I might still add sometime, now that I have a more powerful computer, with 12 virtual cores), I compile them in parallel, each in its own shell in its own shadow directory, with its own configure environment and no changes to the distributed Makefile. Best regards, and have fun Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAJkCKXv%3Dz8kvWKaj1E8REvg0RPCU%3DqJcPT0%3Dycvz8jqqpLWA9g%40mail.gmail.com.
