From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-editors/vim and USE="vim-with-x" -> Rename to USE="X"?
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 20:10:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100607201031.5a8cc1b6@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100607190527.GA22330@laptop>
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 23:05:27 +0400
dev-random@mail.ru wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 07:53:22PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > It's there because if you break your X you probably want a usable
> > editor to help you fix it.
>
> vim, compiled with "vim-with-x" works correctly when X is broken. It
> doesn't enable X11-based UI, like flag "X" suggests. It just enables
> optional connection to x-server to use its clipboard, and vim still
> works if that connection fails.
It does not, however, work if your X libraries are broken.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-07 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-07 18:44 [gentoo-dev] app-editors/vim and USE="vim-with-x" -> Rename to USE="X"? Jim Ramsay
2010-06-07 18:51 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2010-06-07 18:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-06-07 19:05 ` dev-random
2010-06-07 19:10 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2010-06-07 19:59 ` Jim Ramsay
2010-06-07 20:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2010-06-08 17:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2010-06-08 20:30 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-06-09 21:27 ` Jim Ramsay
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