Dominique Pelle wrote: > Speaking of exotic OS, I have installed "Haiku" (OS compatible with BeOS, > see http://www.haiku-os.org) and downloaded latest Vim from Mercurial. > Vim-7.3f compiles without warning and passes all tests on Haiku. > > I noticed a few minor glitches though: > > * The configure script says... "checking for BeOS... no" > > I suppose it should say "checking for BeOS... yes" since Haiku is meant > to be compatible with BeOS. I did not observe anything wrong as a result > so far anyway.
Maybe it's better this way? BeOS had the strange notion of putting filetypes first. Doing things the BeOS way might break some stuff. > * Vim-7.3f works fine in the terminal on Haiku but there is no GUI (no gVim). > The BeOS GUI was dropped in Vim-7 according to ":help compile-changes-7": > > ====== > COMPILE TIME CHANGES compile-changes-7 > > Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and > probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version > and merge it back in. > ====== > > However, ":help BeOs" still contains information about the BeOS GUI > without stating that it was dropped in Version-7. I'll update that section in the help. > * I did "set mouse=a". I can use the mouse to position the cursor > and mouse also works fine with Netrw (clicking on directories opens > them...). However, I cannot use the mouse to resize Vim's windows > (nothing happens when I click the statusline and try to drag it). Good luck :-). -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 64. The remote to the T.V. is missing...and you don't even care. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- 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
