vim or gvim

raees · 03-17-2004, 03:38 PM

Is there a vim or gvim available for Linux. If so is there a download site

Thanks
Raees

lfur · 03-17-2004, 03:43 PM

Do you mean vi editor ("Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi'")???

If so, vim is on every linux distribution. gvim is just a graphical version of vim.

Tinkster · 03-17-2004, 03:57 PM

Ummm ... vim is not necessarily on every
install, in Slack vi by default points to elvis :)

Cheers,
Tink

raees · 03-17-2004, 03:57 PM

Yeah I am looking for the gvim .. or a vim that does not give an error for ":gui" etntry in the .vimrc

on Sun Solaris this entry will invoke the gvim when you type vim on commandline. I want the same feature or a seperate gvim

Is there a download site for gvim ?

Thanks
Raees

slakmagik · 03-17-2004, 04:15 PM

http://www.vim.org/index.php - most every app's got an easily found homepage. Gvim is just a symlink for a GUI-enabled vim.

And elvis is default, but Slack does offer vim, of course.

raees · 03-17-2004, 04:24 PM

Your last comment seams not correct !!!!. about symbolic link
Look at the ls output on a SunSolaris Box

ls -lrtc /usr/local/bin/gvim
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 785152 Jan 8 2001 /usr/local/bin/gvim*

Raees

slakmagik · 03-17-2004, 04:36 PM

Well, I was speaking of a Slack box - or any Linux I recall.
~
1005>> ls -l `which gvim`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 26 06:57 /usr/bin/gvim -> vim

Though, granted, in Gentoo, it's the other way around.

Let there be: ls -l vim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 10 10:55 vim -> gvim

raees · 03-17-2004, 05:02 PM

Looks like you are a linux addict.. Kiddin :-)

Thanks
raees