ahmet nurlu wrote:
Hi,
I am an user of gvim on a Debian/testing. I mistakenly
deleted some
vim, gvim related directories like " /etc/vim,
/etc/gvim". After that,
I was unable to run gvim. Whenever I run it , I always
get the vim
without gui. I tried reinstall vim-gnome by giving a
command "apt-get
install --reinstall vim-gnome" on a console. But no
success. It still
runs the vim without gui.
[...]
Try
which -a vim
which -a gvim
in the shell, to see all programs of those names in the $PATH. The first
one listed for each name will get invoked when you don't mention a path
on the shell command line.
Then,
ls -l `which -a vim` `which -a gvim`
will tell you (but not necessarily in the same order as before) when
each of the above was compiled, its size, and, if it's a link, what it
points to.
You might try to compile Vim for yourself. It's not difficult, see
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.vim , and it will
allow you to always have the latest version, tailored to your needs and
wants, and with your name on it.
Unless you specify another installdir, it will install the Vim runtime
files in /usr/local/share/vim/vim70 and the binary in /usr/local/bin --
but don't take my word for it, check it as above.
To use a single GUI-enabled executable as both gvim and console Vim,
install it as "vim" (like above) and add a link to it. Similarly for
other Vim "executable names": for instance:
pushd /usr/local/bin
# does it exist here ?
ls -l vim
# is it GUI-enabled ?
./vim --version |more
# check near the beginning of the output
# if it tells you "with" or "without" GUI.
# if it says "without GUI" you cannot use it for gvim
# if OK:
ln -s vim gvim
ln -s vim vi
ln -s vim ex
ln -s vim view
ln -s vim gview
ln -s vim vimdiff
ln -s vim gvimdiff
# etc. (see the list starting at ":help ex").
ls -l
popd
Best regards,
Tony.
