On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:44:00PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: > The problem is: what GUI?
Exactly. > An X-based GUI would be an option, but that would require you to run an > X server, such as Cygwin-XFree, whenever you want to run gvim. (Also, > to have a decent looking GUI, you'd need some GUI toolkit like GTK > available.) No problem. I did already compile gvim with gtk. Looks ok, is usable and would probably be a nice addition to our Cygwin/XFree86 packages. > Somewhere deep down on my rainy day list is a plan to port the Win32 GUI > to the UNIX (./configure; make) based vim build. (With some cygwin path > conversion functions inserted here and there, so that the dialog boxes > use Win32 paths, as they have to, but within gvim, Posix paths are > used.) Don't hold your breath though, and if someone beats me to it, > great! :-) Not me ;-) I have no idea what gvim is actually good for. The non-GUI version runs very nicely inside of xterm or rxvt, so what? <-- just a rethorical question Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
