Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

Jonathan McKeown j.mckeown at ru.ac.za
Mon Jan 10 13:48:37 UTC 2011


On Monday 10 January 2011 15:02:35 Ed Smith wrote:
> This seems bizarre.  Logically, it would seem better to do a split like
> vim (bare vim - what you would expect) and xvim (vim with X11) similar
> to how emacs does emacs/xemacs.

Er, no. xemacs is a fork of emacs. emacs has X-related dependencies unless you 
make it WITHOUT_X11.

Jonathan


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