[gentoo-dev] Using gvim with motif

[gentoo-dev] Using gvim with motif

[Ingo Krabbe]

Hi,

in recent times gtk2 becomes to be used within gvim.  This is nice for
most people of course, but I would like to use the motif frontend with
gvim since it is quit a bit faster and smaller and I don't need to type
traditional chinese or things like that.

gtk2 slows down gvim by the use of pango as the font display library and
I would like to go on using my motif resources again.

Until now it was quit easy to edit new ebuilds of gvim to use motif but
now you directly patch the configure file to use gtk2 as a default.

It would be nice to have a flag though that controls gvim flavour.

BYE INGO

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Using gvim with motif

[Max Kalika]

Quoting Ingo Krabbe <i.krabbe@dokom.net>:

> Until now it was quit easy to edit new ebuilds of gvim to use motif but
> now you directly patch the configure file to use gtk2 as a default.
> 
> It would be nice to have a flag though that controls gvim flavour.

I'm still (and always have) been using the Motif front end.  I have -gtk
and -gtk2 in my USE flags.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Using gvim with motif

[A. Sleep]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:09:29AM -0800, Max Kalika wrote:
> Quoting Ingo Krabbe <i.krabbe@dokom.net>:
> > Until now it was quit easy to edit new ebuilds of gvim to use motif but
> > now you directly patch the configure file to use gtk2 as a default.
> > It would be nice to have a flag though that controls gvim flavour.
> I'm still (and always have) been using the Motif front end.  I have -gtk
> and -gtk2 in my USE flags.

I think he ment something that didn't limit his/users use of gtk or gtk2, but
would be a little more 'user friendly' then:

USE="<whatever you need here>" emerge gvim

I don't see the need for a change but would point out that the commonly
used USE then emerege syntax should be made _very_ clear in the docs.
(probably noted somplace in the install doc since that's the only one
most people seem to read)

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