[m-rev.] split-screen source linking

[Mark Brown]

On 06-Nov-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> David wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:57:03PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > > On 06-Nov-2001, Mark Brown <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > > NEWS:
> > > > +  This
> > > > +  requires X11 and a version of `vim' with the `clientserver' feature
> > > > +  enabled.
> > >
> > > That sentence (or something similar) should also go in the Mercury
> user's
> > > guide, as well as in the NEWS file, if it isn't there already.
> >
> > Vim's clientserver feature is supposed to work on Windows as well and
> > does not require X11 for that.  Have you tried using the new feature of
> > mdb under Windows?
> >

No, because I haven't installed the latest version of vim under Windows
yet.

> Hopefully I can try that out sometime today, because it is a feature I would
> dearly love to have.
> 
> Pete
> 

It shouldn't work yet, because the view command first checks if there is
an X11 display before it does anything else.  I don't imagine it would
be too hard to get this feature working under Windows, though.  I'll
update my cygwin installation and look into it, sometime in the not too
distant future.

Cheers,
Mark.

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