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RE: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:19:58 +0100
- Subject: RE: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
>
> Well... when writing my survey mail I was actually mulling over an
> additional sentence like "Note that I'll maintain only one package."
> but dropped it for the final mail. I should have known better.
>
> The problem with vim is the number of configure options which do make
> different sense for different people. What should I do?
>
> - pure vim
> - perl support
> - python support
> - tcl support
> - ruby support
> - perl and python but not tcl
> - gvim with win32 interface (actually unsupported under Cygwin)
> - gvim with X interface
> - Which X interface, gtk, gnome, motif, athena?
> - ...
>
> See what I mean? You'd never hit the right combination. I've just
> checked the vim release on my Linux box and found out that it's also
> not built with any of the interpreter language support. Of course
> I'm using my own handcrafted build of vim...
>
>
> Corinna
>
Corrinna,
Sorry about that. I regretted the suggestion as soon as I suggested
it as it should be easy enough to build your own vim if you require more
advanced features, and you're already doing plenty without creating another
package. I think I'd change my vote to no on second thoughts since
installing perl just to use vi is a little over the top.
Vince
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