On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:10:19PM +0200, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > How difficult would it be to implement a console server using sockets? > > if_xsrvcmd.c looks quite complicated, but I get the felling that a > > simple socket interface wouldn't require quite as much code. > > > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > > > The reason I would like to see a socket-powered server is that the X11 > > interface will only work when an actual X11 server is also running. > > You don't need X11 to run Vim: if it can't connect with an X server it'll > start in console mode.
Correct, you don't need X11 to run Vim but Nikolai was talking about the --remove functionality. This does require an active and accessible X session which Vim uses as the message passing facility. If this were changed to use some other form of IPC, then people could use the --remote functionality in more circumstances than they currently can. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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