[gvim: vim variant?]

[Peter West]

Has MacVim been mentioned?
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Peter West
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> On 26 Mar 2023, at 10:01 am, raf via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 12:36:05AM -0400, "Richard L. Hamilton" <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:
> 
>> As an aside, perhaps the best example of using X resources to good
>> effect to allow a user to adjust a program's behavior and appearance
>> might be the xephem program (there's a port for that!), which uses
>> Motif, and has GUI settings that effectively change X resources, which
>> it can then save for subsequent runs.
>> 
>> Otherwise one would end up editing an .Xdefaults file by hand, putting
>> in mysterious incantations mostly by luck, unless one had studied the
>> source (or built libXt and libXaw (Athena Widgets) or libXm (Motif)
>> with editres support, so one could explore the resources and change
>> them on the fly).
>> 
>> Properly compiled and with LD_PRELOAD pointing to the resulting .so
>> or .dylib, the following may add editres suport on the fly to a Motif
>> program. Last I checked, it worked on Solaris, and I think I've used
>> it on macOS, but I haven't tried that in a long time; and right now I
>> don't think I have a copy of gvim built to use Motif. (I almost forgot
>> I had this, so I'm not particularly prepared to answer questions about
>> it.)
> 
> Ideally, it shouldn't be too mysterious. I remember seeing
> Xresources details in manual entries, but looking at gvim's
> manual entry, I don't see any Xresources specifications. :-(
> It must be unfashionable.
> 
> The editres program seems to be a graphical Xresources editor
> that lets you explore the resources of a running program.
> But it looks very cumbersome. I'd prefer documentation and
> manual editing, but you can't always get what you want. :-)
> 
> cheers,
> raf
> 

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