On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:01 PM Zdenek Dohnal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I found out there is Vimx symlink to gvim binary in my Vim package in Fedora. > > Does anyone know what Vimx is/was? What behavior did it have? > > I see from man page: > > vimx Starts gvim in "Vi" mode similar to "vim", but with additional > features like xterm clipboard support > > but it was added into our package long time ago and there is no sign of Vimx > in Vim project itself, so the man page seems out-dated. > > The current behavior is when user calls 'vimx', normal 'vim' is opened > because there is no 'g' at the beginning of name. > > Thank you in advance! > > Have a nice day, > > Zdenek
Well, on my openSUSE 15.1 system there are a lot of executables whose name start with vi (some of which I created myself) but none of them is vimx or Vimx. If on your system there is a symlink vimx --> gvim then it will start the gvim executable in console mode, rather than a non-GUI-enabled Vim even if you have one. This may be useful if there is a non-X-enabled (and therefore non-GUI-enabled non-clipboard-enabled) Vim executable named "vim" on your system. The usual procedure on Unix-like systems is to compile a full-featured GUI-enabled Vim executable named vim, and to have in the $PATH several symlinks, one of them named "gvim", pointing to it. Fedora may have acted otherwise in order to allow users to install, if they wish, all three of a minimal Vim named "vi", a full-featured GUI-enabled Vim named "gvim", and a third one with some intermediate featureset, but no X and no GUI, under the name "vim". On Windows it is different because there each executable program is either a GUI or a console application but not both. 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAJkCKXvFraY33FudH-%3D%2BV1ogabhm4Ughu%3Dw%2BcvJ8mGJ0fgXW%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com.
