On 10Jan, 2018, at 16:59 , Alex Malinovich <[email protected]> wrote:

> Purely asking out of curiosity, but are there any compelling reasons to
> use gvim in X vs Macvim natively? I usually just use vim in a terminal
> anyway, but Macvim doesn't seem to be lacking anything AFAICT.

I don't know if there's a reason or not...never even knew about Macvim.
But remember, gvim is only one example of the problem here (just the
question, btw, makes me remember the old vi vs emacs flame wars on
comp.editors).  I've gotten so used to so many X11 apps it's difficult
suddenly not having them.

Hmmmm, strange.  I just thought of something that throws a big wrench
into this issue:  I have a script that I've used for years that
basically opens xterms, some Tcl/Tk apps, and two X apps. They open from
that script fine.  One is xeyes (just for fun), and the other is
xkbvleds.  I don't do anything special opening those....  I just ran it,
after killing XQuartz a bit earlier (it opened again with startx).  They
started fine.  However, I just created another test script to run a
different X11 app (rxvt), and it failed for the reasons posted in my
previous post.

Now I'm even more confused.  Why would xeyes and xkbvleds work from a
shell (/bin/sh) script, and rxvt not?  Strange.....

Thanks,
   --jim

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