I'm requesting fasttrack approval for this request. I am an external
contributor. SCA: OS0091 The timeout is 2008-08-30. (If the process
still requires internal sponsorship, I am pretty sure Danek, or Jijun
will do so)
1. Introduction and motivation
1.1 Summary
This project proposes to integrate vim version 7.1 with the gtk2
graphical toolkit. In our previous case (SUNWgvim / PSARC 2007/267 )
we aimed to integrate a modern version of vi (vim) available on all
Solaris systems. This proposal builds on the future plans indicated
in that proposal and is targeted at the user(s) who need a the
graphical version of vim.
The package will tentatively be called "SUNWgvim".
1.2 History and context
Please see PSARC 2007/267 for background into the initial motivations
to integrate vim with Solaris. At this point we propose to further
enhance the functionality of vim by contributing an optional package
that provides additional functionality, that will deliver the graphic
mode vim (gvim).
2. Discussion
2.1 Functionality (in addition to that provided by SUNvim PSARC 2007/267 )
This version has a superset of the functionality provided by SUNWvim.
The "gvim" executable will have feature parity with SUNWvim.
2.2 Components
The SUNWgvim will deliver a single executable "gvim" into the system.
In addition, the following symlinks will be installed:
gview -> gvim
gvimdiff -> gvim
rgview -> gvim
rgvim -> gvim
gvim is smart enough to recognize how to behave depending on what
command name that was used to launch it. e.g. - restricted mode,
"easy" (modeless) mode, diff mode, read-only mode, and some
combinations of these.
2.3 Language bindings.
--none--
2.4 GUI bindings
This version of gvim is proposed to be built against the gtk2 GUI
library provided in Nevada. Gtk2 is provided with the following
package:
SUNWgnome-base-libs
2.5 Documentation
Vim/gvim comes with man pages, but the most significant sets of
documentation are accessed via gvim itself. Within gvim typing ":help"
will bring up the vim help system. There are two main sources of
additional documentation: SourceForge [1] and gvim's [2] home pages.
Vim/gvim has comprehensive and elaborate documentation. Help can be
accessed from within the editor.
gvim provides the following man pages:
/usr/man/man1
gvim.1
gvimdiff.1
2.6 Future projects
1) Investigate dynamic language bindings.
2) Upgrade vim/gvim to 7.2+
3) Investigate additional modules e.g. - cscope
4) Replacing the current version of vi with vim
5) Changing Sun Studio's bundled vim to the system vim
6) Investigate interest in "tiny-vim" or "vim-minimal" package
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3. Interfaces
3.1 Imported interfaces
3.1.1 Interface stability
Vim/gvim has no obvious history of any interface stability and the expectation
is is that dot-dot releases of gvim will be compatible.
3.1.2 Imported interfaces stability:
gtk2 Committed
vim Uncommitted
3.2 Exported interfaces Bundled files
SUNWgvim Uncommitted Package name
/usr/bin/gvim Uncommitted Executable binary
/usr/bin/rgvim Uncommitted Symbolic link location
/usr/bin/rview Uncommitted Symbolic link location
/usr/bin/rgvim Uncommitted Symbolic link location
/usr/bin/rgview Uncommitted Symbolic link location
4. References
[1] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/ SourceForge - Official
documentation repository
[2] http://www.vim.org/docs.php - gvim documentation homepage,
includes man links
--
- Brian Gupta
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_New_User_FAQ
