On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Tux- <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is that so much work at all? I thought such a GUI would easily be > possible by just adding buttons which send keystrokes to the underlying > unmodified Vim...? > > […] Well, I don't know, but I know that it has been tried in the past, and not very successfully — with so little success, in fact, that the project was abandoned once, then taken up by a different group of developers, and abandoned a second time. IIRC the project names were "kvim" then "yzis".
However, if you look at the source, you will find that there is quite a lot of code concerned only with making gvim work with GTK2 and GNOME. I would expect a Qt gvim to be on the same order of complexity as a GTK2/Gnome gvim with a similar-but-different frontend and a wholly different GUI backend. So, as has been so often said with various open-source projects: "The source is there. If you want to add that new feature, go ahead. But beware that it may be harder than you think." Best regards, 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
