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From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: Peter Fein <pfein@pobox.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev List <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x
Date: 30 Apr 2003 08:47:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051663662.24684.1757.camel@rattus.Localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030429192914.3a70ea62.pfein@pobox.com>

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 08:29, Peter Fein wrote:
> On 30 Apr 2003 07:49:10 +0800
> William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> This is just a silly reason already - did you nuke nano or something?

Yes, since corrected!

> From vim --help:
> 
>    -X                   Do not connect to X server
> 
> Users who can't figure out to try --help are probably going to generate line noise by trying to use vi in the first place. ;)
>  

whoops, I didnt read help, should have realised something like this
might be present

> > To me, the question is whether to stick with a convention that is not
> > appropriate in this circumstance, or do a logical workaround that can
> > satisfactorily overcome this behaviour.
> 
> While we can continue the vim-with-x vs. X battle royale, I:
> 
> a) think X is better
> b) really don't care
> c) withdraw any ill-will toward developers who avoid -dev
> d) was seriously hoping this would turn in to a vi vs. emacs war
> 
> Perhaps someone should set up a forum poll? ;)
> 
> > Can someone define why console vim needs X anyway, apart from the highly
> > critical trick of putting a title on the X window?
> 
> Causing grief to those who bork their XF86Config? ;)
> 
> (All flames meant in the friendliest spirit.)
-- 
William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-30  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-29  0:14 [gentoo-dev] new local USE var: vim-with-x Aron Griffis
2003-04-29  1:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Björn Lindström
2003-04-29  3:32   ` Aron Griffis
2003-04-29  6:24     ` Mike Lundy
2003-04-29  6:36       ` Bill Kenworthy
2003-04-29 10:07         ` Patrick Börjesson
2003-04-29 10:23           ` Chris Watson
2003-04-29 11:52             ` Patrick Kursawe
2003-04-29 10:08         ` Mark Gordon
2003-04-29 13:05         ` Björn Lindström
2003-04-29 13:12           ` Fredrik Jagenheim
2003-04-29 13:18             ` Björn Lindström
2003-04-29 13:27               ` Bartosch Pixa
2003-04-29 13:38               ` Fredrik Jagenheim
2003-04-29 13:44           ` William Kenworthy
2003-04-29 15:27             ` Björn Lindström
2003-04-29 13:10         ` Aron Griffis
2003-04-29 14:13           ` Mark Gordon
2003-04-29 15:00           ` [gentoo-dev] Was: (Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x ) Default USE Flags Revision Adrian Almenar
2003-04-29 15:05             ` Jon Portnoy
2003-04-29 15:09             ` Daniel Armyr
2003-04-29 13:56         ` [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x Max Kalika
2003-04-29 14:22           ` Daniel Armyr
2003-04-29 14:49             ` Max Kalika
2003-04-29 15:31               ` Caleb Shay
2003-04-29 16:05                 ` William Kenworthy
2003-04-29 18:28                   ` Björn Lindström
2003-04-29 19:41                     ` Mark Gordon
2003-04-29 23:49                     ` William Kenworthy
2003-04-30  0:29                       ` Peter Fein
2003-04-30  0:47                         ` William Kenworthy [this message]
2003-04-30 23:31                           ` Björn Lindström
2003-04-30 12:41                       ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-04-29 18:46             ` torbenh
2003-04-29 18:55               ` Dan Armak
2003-05-01 14:16         ` Brad Laue
2003-04-30 13:26       ` Celestial Wizard
2003-04-29 13:01     ` Björn Lindström
2003-04-29 18:16     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-04-29 20:10       ` Aron Griffis
2003-04-29 15:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Grant Goodyear
2003-05-01  3:25   ` Troy Dack
2003-04-30 14:08     ` William Kenworthy

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