Thanks.

I installed gvim and it does startup, however, it looks terrible ;-(

In the main window, the white background have coloured lines, 
and all text, both in the edit window and the text on the menu
have the same colour (bluish green) background.

This colour background to the text just covers the letters
as high as the letters are, the colouring is smaller for
letter a, c, e and higher for b, d. f etc.
The appearance is like one is applying a highlighting to the text.

btw, when the gvim started, it printed this warning:
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display 10.40...

Also, the machine is remote and I don't have access
to the console, I'm running xterm onto my pc.

Maybe I'm missing some packages, but then, what packages?
btw, sterm is working okay.

Thanks your help.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Danek Duvall
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: vim with gui on Solaris 11, x86

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 07:28:18PM +0000, Amitava Dutta wrote:

> I'm looking for ViM with GUI on Solaris 11 on x86.

Note that gvim is in Solaris 11 already.  The version shipped in the release 
was 7.3, patchlevel 254.  If you don't already have it in /usr/bin, then you 
can run "pkg install gvim" to get it.

If you want to rebuild it yourself, feel free to use the same configure options 
Solaris does, as in

    http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/userland/gate/components/vim/Makefile

If you want a patch to bring it up to the latest version, let me know; I've 
been keeping a private workspace up to date.

That's not to say, though, that your errors come from a badly-built gvim; you 
might actually be missing fonts that it's trying to use, in which case I can't 
help much.

Danek

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