Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?

[Nicholas Wourms]

Michael Schaap wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>> [ ]  Yes, please add perl support to the next Cygwin vim release.
>>
>> [x]  No, go away with that.
>>
>> [ ]  What's vim?
>>  
>>
> Personally, I'd like Perl support enabled, but adding a dependency on 
> Perl for such a basic package as vim is probably not a good idea.  
> Anyway, I'm sure that anyone who'd actually use the Perl interface in 
> vim is perfectrly capable of building their own copy.
> 
>> - gvim with win32 interface (actually unsupported under Cygwin)
>>
> Now here's something I would love.  :-)
> 
> On my Rainy Day list is a plan to try to make the Win32 GUI work with 
> the Cygwin (standard ./configure based) build.  Should be possible, with 
> lots of #ifdefs and calls to cygwin_conv_*...
> (Don't hold your breath - it's been on my list for aeons, and this list 
> isn't getting any shorter.  ;-)

I think it "would be nice" (TM) if we could have a gui vim which worked 
like rxvt, able to run in native w32api or under Cygwin/XFree86.  Just 
an idle thought...

Cheers,
Nicholas



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