much appreciated bill: yes, I've tried cream. I'm learning vim via gvim. Cream is one step removed I think. I like having vim in console though using gvim as my editor for everything I used to use jedit and scite for is the goal.
Ben: most interesting and I've given it a try.... Went ot your first link and then found what I think is the gvim.desktop icon/file at /usr/share/applications/ it was empty which made me wonder if I was getting it. Was that the right file I thought. So then to the blank file I added: Exec=gvim -p --remote-tab-silent %F Then I needed to open with gvim.desktop to get any text files to open with anything gvim related. Also the option to open with simply gvim was gone. This didn't work at all. So.. still really searching though I have a clue now.... hehehe thanks! any other ideas where I went wrong. The gvim.desktop file was in a folder with a ton of other icons at /usr/share/applications/ Is this what you get there? I also added tab all to my ~/.vimrc Most interested to solve this one. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
