On Jan 27, 2:25 am, howardb21 <howard...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 26, 3:39 pm, Steve Hall <digit...@dancingpaper.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:31 AM, howard Schwartz <howard...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Redhat's ``enhanced'' version is not - It adds one or two trivial > > > features. > > > Better check your :version, vim-enhanced is compiled by redhat with > > the "huge" +feature-list. Only the "-" items below are missing from mine: > > Looks like you have the gui version (for X windows?). That is where > one gets the `huge' features. But my friend needs vim, not gvim (see > other posts). I would have thought the gui version would include vim, > as it does for ms windows. But it does not. > You must be in a graphical environment to get the huge features. As > far as I can tell the standard versions are: minimal, enhanced, and gui
I believe that the gui version of Vim runs fine in the console for Unix-like systems. There's even a command to launch the GUI from a Vim running in the console, :gui. I thought there was a command-line argument to gvim which would cause it to run in the terminal, but I can't find it, the closest I could come was -v, "Start Ex in Vi mode. Only makes a difference when the executable is called 'ex' or 'gvim'. For gvim the GUI is not started if possible." But, simply renaming the executable to vim, or creating a link to gvim named vim, should work. I couldn't find it explicitly stated in the help that an executable called "vim" would not start the GUI, but it is implied at least by the list at the end of :he vim-arguments, which goes over the default arguments based on executable name. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
