Vim upgrade in latest MacPorts lost gvim

Ludwig macports at metaspasm.org
Wed Mar 12 18:37:38 PDT 2014


On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Clemens Lang wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Jim Graham wrote:
> > > What build option for the latest vim adds back gvim?  I don't remember
> > > ever having to specify anything to get gvim.  Oh, and yes, I do know that
> > > vim and gvim are the same binary (hard link, if I recall), but that
> > > didn't work either with the new version.  My solution was to
> > > deactivate//uninstall the new one and reactivate the previous version,
> > > but that's not the right way, obviously.....
> > >
> > 
> > It's not an option to vim, it's a separate package: vim-app, which has vim as
> > a dependency.
> 
> vim-app is an old Carbon-based version of a GUI for vim. It does not work on anything newer than 10.6.
> 
> The best GUI for Macs probably is MacVim (from the equally named port), which uses a native GUI.
>

Oops, my bad.  I knew it was a separate port but didn't read the results of
"port search vim" closely enough.




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