Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:34:01 +0100 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: editors/vim needs devel/llvm90 and devel/llvm10 Message-ID: <a6uw-w4jq-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwchpdBAQZ99D_ixydRzN1gi8xeeft5Zq4dC4Wdvpr97y%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> (Adam Weinberger's message of "Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:25:38 -0700") References: <20201130222755.GA16476@c720-r342378> <CAP7rwchpdBAQZ99D_ixydRzN1gi8xeeft5Zq4dC4Wdvpr97y%2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
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Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> writes:
> While the end-user package burden is significantly lower, I suspect
> very, very few users actually make use of the gtk3 frontend-specific
> features. Honestly, the plain x11 frontend is probably sufficient for
> the vast majority of gvim users (it's what I test with), and if you
> don't use GUI vim at all then I strongly encourage the vim-console
> package (or vim with the CONSOLE option enabled).
FWIW, X11 isn't sufficient for Wayland users but Vim isn't ready yet.
$ pkg install cage vim
$ GDK_BACKEND=wayland cage -d gvim
E233: cannot open display
vim-8.2.1943/src/gui_gtk_x11.c:
#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3,10,0)
// Vim currently assumes that Gtk means X11, so it cannot use native Gtk
// support for other backends such as Wayland.
gdk_set_allowed_backends ("x11");
#endif
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