On Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 09:30 Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > It's certainly still needed. The vim binary is not built with the "huge" feature set, if I recall correctly, and vimx is linked against X libraries, so you're able to access the X selections. > -- -- 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/CAFeRdpc2kaDzvO9OYtWXZ4mUPYibso_vUEumYbfc7AfnGcDyaA%40mail.gmail.com.
