installing vim with graphical mode

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Jun 15 01:38:39 PDT 2007


On Jun 15, 2007, at 03:04, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

> I wonder why, but the aqua variant has been removed from vim and a new
> vim-app port has been created. One problem I have: it does not contain
> the non-gui vim, which a simple link makes available... Maybe vim-app
> could have a variant for terminal vim. Second (possible) problem, this
> vim-app installs the gvim script (which I am very happy about), which
> means vim-app can conflict with vim +gtk2 or whatever graphical  
> variant
> you choose for vim. Third problem: two different ports, two different
> maintainers, two instances of vim which are not in sync: vim-app is
> 7.1.000, vim is 7.1.002.
>
> I preferred the way it used to be.

I see this was done in this revision:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/23756

But Elias didn't say in the log message why it was done.






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