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

[Michael J Gruber]

Johannes Lips venit, vidit, dixit 04.07.2012 17:04:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet <nathanael at gnat.ca
> <mailto:nathanael at gnat.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>         <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
>         <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.

This is taken care of, of course. No ex in vim-enhanced, no package clash.

> On a related note, the description of the vim-minimal package also needs
> some updates. Since it doesn't really reflect the changes which are
> caused by the usr-move.

There are still symlinks, so the description isn't that far off.

The point in this thread is the need for gnome-vim and, possibly, for a
different subpackage structure.

Michael