vim with Gnome integration: session restore support and vim-subpackage structure

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On 07/04/2012 03:04 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> gvim as provided in the Fedora packages does not support session restore
> (i.e. reopening with the same buffers) because it does not integrate
> with the GNOME nor KDE desktop environments.
>
> Recompiling with gnome support helps: as a proof of concept, I've added
> a vim-gnome subpackage to the spec file, see
>
> http://mjg.fedorapeople.org/rpmdev/vim.spec
>
> which is based on the current F16 (updates) spec. It provides a
> gnome-vim binary which is "gvim + gnome integration" and works with KDE
> as well.
>
> It's only POC because I think we need to decide about the package
> structure (see also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=311061).
> vim can be compiled resp. is currently in Fedora in these shapes:
>
> * with minimal features: subpackage vim-minimal
> /bin/ex
> /bin/rvi
> /bin/rview
> /bin/vi
> /bin/view
> (or /usr/bin/ ;) )
>
> * with enhanced features and without X library support: not in Fedora
>
> * with enhanced features and no GUI: subpackage vim-enhanced
> /usr/bin/ex
> /usr/bin/rvim
> /usr/bin/vim
> /usr/bin/vimdiff
> /usr/bin/vimtutor
> (these support vim in xterm and such specifically and depend on X
> libraries!)

Thie vim-minimal and vim-enhanced will now class in F17 due to the lack 
of a separation between /usr and / so /bin/ex == /usr/bin/ex... Just 
something to think about for this package it seems.

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Nathanael d. Noblet
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