hi, macosx-10.6.5, vim-7.3.087 (openmotif-2.3.2_2, lesstif-0.95.2_1)
this morning i upgraded all of my macports (fool!) which broke my openmotif gvim. it just started crashing on startup with a nearly empty stack trace. i hoped that i just needed to recompile vim but it didn't help. so i uninstalled openmotif and installed lesstif to try that. it crashed on startup as well but with a deeper stack trace. so i thought i'd try athena but configure couldn't find libXaw even though i seem to have many copies of it in many locations. so i tried letting it choose its own x11 gui and it picked gtk which starts without crashing but the font looked ridiculous (-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1). the characters are far too big and too widely spaced. changing it to guifont=Fixed\ Medium\ Semi-Condensed\ 10 fixed that. and, being gtk, it ignores the Xresources that i use to automatically position the gvim window so, instead, i have to click the mouse to make the window appear (before any winpos/winsize commands can take effect to move the window to where i want it. i'll try to get motif or athena working again but in the mean time, is there anyway to get a gtk window to automatically realise itself at a previously determined position and size without user intervention? or, does anyone have any advice for reliably being able to compile an non-gtk X11 vim on macosx? i.e. which motif library (openmotif or lesstif) from which source (macports or fink or directly from source). i suspect there's no great answer to that. cheers, raf -- 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
