James Vega wrote:
> 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
Ah, I see. Well, good luck Nikolai then...
Best regards,
Tony.
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