On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Henry Hertz Hobbit <[email protected]> wrote:
On 09/22/2010 06:29 PM, Hussain wrote:
<SNIP>
OHHH!
Now that I have heard more I think you have a KDE moving on
with Qt and KDE diverging away from lesstif problem, not a
problem with vim / givm.
I don't remember when ^C, ^V was added. I don't think it is in
Motif or clones. I think it is only in Qt and GTk instead.
After hearing more I don't think the problem is in how you
compiled vim. It sounds like there is now some sort of mismatch
between KDE 4.2.4 and lesstif. I am pretty sure KDE abandoned
lesstif in favor of Qt a long time ago (in Linux parlance,
ANYTHING over two years is a long time). Let me see what KDE
4.2.4 needs first ... first lets search for the references
on lesstif at KDE.org:
http://techbase.kde.org/Special:Search?search=lesstif&fulltext=Search
I don't think they used lesstif after KDE 3.3 as you can see from the
search. You may have been able to get away with it until now but
I think the umbilical cords between Gnome <-> GTk and KDE <-> Qt are
pretty strong now. It is quite likely you were able to use lesstif
until now and finally Qt diverged too far away from lesstif and KDE
went with Qt and left lesstif behind. So finally what used to work
finally got at least partially broken. Here is the starter for KDE:
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4
Look at the compiling "kde-qt etc." section. Here is the generic page
requirements:
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Generic
top level:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.2.4.php
As you can see almost all other KDE people have shifted to
Qt instead. Me? I just take what ever they provide in a
distro.
But I am forced to use `lesstif'. The reason is that I use Farsi in vim
and this requires to compile `vim 7.3' with the `+farsi' feature, i.e.
I compile vim with:
"--enable-gui=motif --with-x --with-features=huge ..."
To start vim in `Farsi' mode, as mentioned in vim help, I invoke the
following command (in KDE 4.2.4):
env LANG=POSIX LC_ALL=POSIX vim -g -fn far-a01 -F "+set fk".
PS: If I compile with "--enable-gui=gtk2" (the default) then when I press
a key, instead of the Farsi character, only a rectangular box is displayed
on the vim window. Even in English mode, an extra space is displayed between
adjacent characters if I use the above font. The same happens even if use
fixed font `10x20' with the command:
env LANG=POSIX LC_ALL=POSIX vim -g -fn 10x20
Also, please note that in `vim 7.1' if I use "--enable-gui=gtk"
everything works fine (with the same KDE), but in `vim 7.3'
`--enable-gui=gtk' is not supported.
Thanks - Hussain
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