Benji Fisher wrote:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:57:41AM +1000, Peter Hodge wrote:
Hello,
Is it possible to run the clientserver feature on Mac OS X? I cannot see
anywhere in the help that directly states that clientserver only runs on
Windows or X11.
I am pretty sure that this is not implemented for OS X. I agree
that the docs are not clear on this point, but I think that if you
scroll down from
:help +feature-list
to
:help +clientserver
you will find "Unix and Win32". OK, so "Unix" includes Linux and maybe
FreeBSD but not OS X ... as I said, I agree that the docs are not clear.
--Benji Fisher
I thought Unix _did_ include OS X; but maybe it should have said "X11
and W32" (can you use the -clientserver facility on a Unix without X11,
such as a Linux running at runlevel 3 i.e. multiuser with network but
without X11?)
BTW, remote.txt has three sections: "Common functionality", "X11
specific items" and "MS-Windows specific items" which make me suspect
that there are exactly two "flavours" of Vim client-server subsystems,
one for X11 and another one for MS-Windows.
Now, there does exist an X11 server for Mac Os X but I've heard some Mac
users don't want to use it because (I've been told) applications running
through the X server are not visible as distinct running Mac applications.
Best regards,
Tony.
