On Di, 20 Aug 2019, Zdenek Dohnal 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.
I believe the vimx package was a Red-Hat/Fedora specialty to provide a
minimal vi with X11 feature support (just like your manpage said). This
feature has never been included in the Vim project itself. As to why it
doesn't work as expected, you should ask the Red-Hat/Fedora developers
(read the changelog, open a bug, etc.). Perhaps it is not needed anymore
so you could get rid of it.
Best,
Christian
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