[m-rev.] split-screen source linking

Peter Ross peter.ross at miscrit.be
Wed Nov 7 21:10:39 AEDT 2001


On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 08:27:54PM +1100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On 06-Nov-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > David wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
I am not sure if the version of vim which comes with cygwin will have
the clientserver feature, you may need the specific Windows build for
that feature to be supported.

Pete
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