Danek Duvall wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:57:17AM -0700, Manpreet Singh wrote:
AFAIK, vim does graceful fallback in all cases. GUI falls back to console mode
transparently even if built with GUI.
It's not a matter of recognizing that it's running in a terminal and can't
pop up a window, but that the gui libraries aren't on the system. If you
remove libX11, ld.so won't even let vim load, if it's linked against that
library.
So what would be nice is to move that decision into the vim code itself.
But that's non-trivial work. Hmmm, intern idea! :)
Additionally, I don't understand why vimscript is being excluded.
It's not. I don't even think that's possible. I'm not sure where that
came from.
Danek
From the original email on this thread
"Although vim can be compiled with support for various extension
languages in addition to the built-in vimscript, we will not be doing
so. Because vi is, and vim will be, the primary basic system text
editor, it can not depend on optional packages, like perl, or python. "
-manpreet
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