vim and /etc/alternatives

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 10:40 +0100, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:19:10AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > There is also vim. I guess it is not exactly the same split, but it
> > seems to be split to keep a minimal vim-minimal.
> 
> In fact, the vim split is much more nonsense imo. I didn't find any option to
> run gvim in text mode so I just ended up replacing vim-minimal and
> vim-enhanced packages by my own that provide just a bunch of symlinks to
> gvim. Honestly, the alternatives approach in debian is one thousand times
> better.
> 
> If anyone wonders why did I do that -- the -ehnanced version does not support
> xterm mouse and X clipboard. Sucks, doesn't it?

The one major reason to not want X support in your editor is so you
don't block on the XOpenDisplay, which can take much longer than you
want when using ssh with a forwarded display.  But I'd assert that the
right way to fix that is to teach vim about xcb so the open can fail
asynchronously.

- ajax