Has MacVim been mentioned? — Peter West p...@pbw.id.au“Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
> On 26 Mar 2023, at 10:01 am, raf via macports-users > <macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 12:36:05AM -0400, "Richard L. Hamilton" > <rlha...@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 >
