Re: vim and GTK

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org>]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> Work on vim is progressing steadily, and a new alpha version has just
> been released. One of the new versions is a GTK+ frontend. I would like
> to include this frontend in the vim packages when a stable vim is
> released. Unfortunately this will add to the already growing number of
> vim variants out there, so I would like some opinions on what packages
> you want. My current proposal is this:
> 
>     vim-tiny     - will not change
>     vim-perl     - currently uses Xaw, might switch to GTK+
>     vim-tcl      - currently uses Xaw, might switch to GTK+
>     vim-python   - currently uses Xaw, might switch to GTK+
>     vim          - will stay with Xaw or drop X support.
>     vim-gtk      - new package, standard vim but with GTK+
> 
> The reason for keeping a binary without GTK+ is that new GTK+ versions
> are made rather frequently and I do not feel like releasing a new vim
> package every couple of weeks.

I would probably use vim-python if it was based on GTK.

-Mitch