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Re: (g)vim for X11
- To: <zaimi@kiwi.iamp.tohoku.ac.jp>, <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: (g)vim for X11
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@ipass.net>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 07:26:29 -0400
- References: <374BD253.DD432545@kiwi.iamp.tohoku.ac.jp>
- Reply-To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@ipass.net>
>
> The text part (the one called vim) works, except
> one detail : I am using the same .vimrc and syntax
> files for both the compiled vim.exe and the
> downloaded one from vim's mother site (build Aug
> 30th 1998), but color rendering IS DIFFERENT. It
> seems that the localy compiled vim.exe looses
> color support after scrolling a few pages.
>
Sounds to me XPM problem? Do you have xpm libraries installed?
In my X11R6.4 archive xpm was from January 99, now I
have a newer xpm libraries for X11. I will be uploading them
latter tonite to my web site for download.
> The graphical part (the one called gvim) doesn't
> work. At all. I have tried two different X servers
> : the one from MicroImage and the one from
> Starnet. I also tried to compile against Motif
> libraries (from Suhaib). The same result happens :
> for a short while I see a rectangular window
> appearing (empty of course), then it disappears.
> If I do a 'ps', I see that my
> '/usr/local/bin/vim.exe' is running, but still no
> corresponfing window.
No clues! I do not know why. I never tried or compiled
vim for X windows. I vim OLE version.
Suhaib
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