[xubuntu-users] vim without gvim?

James Freer jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 22:20:40 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using vi and clones since around 1984, so I'm pretty much
> married to them. I've just started dabbling with a pure xubuntu
> install, and found that my naïve addition of vim also pulled in a huge
> bunch of other packages, including gnome libraries that I'd prefer to
> not have.
>
> I don't really want a GUI editor, as I learned vim without a mouse and
> consider the mouse a hindrance for almost everything except menus and
> explicily graphical chores.
>
> Is there a keyboard-only vim package, or will I have to roll my own?
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

I'm not sure what you've done there. It would seem you've installed
vim-gnome... which is the gui version. If you'd installed vim [7.2]
you'd have got what you wanted. nvi if you want a pure vi version.

james




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