gvim promised, but no present.

[Phil Dobbin]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I'm running Xubuntu 12.04.1.
> 
> I don't often ask for it, but when I tried the 'gvim' command, it told me
> 
>> The program 'gvim' can be found in the following packages:
>>  * vim
>>  * vim-gnome
>>  * vim-tiny
>>  * vim-athena
>>  * vim-gtk
>>  * vim-nox
>> Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
> 
> This sort of message has been very helpful in the past.  The problem
> is, I already did that: I installed "vim", as verified by synaptic.
> 
> What's up with that?  I could install either vim-gnome or vim-gtk, but
> I'm unsure of which would be best.  I'm using xubuntu to avoid both
> KDE and Gnome to the extent possible, but I've noticed there are some
> gnome libraries here anyway.


I personally always use vim-gtk as my gVim on Linux. I mistakenly
installed the Gnome variety once but didn't like the look of it (I must
add this was purely aesthetically; it didn't stay installed long enough
for me to find out anything else about it).

As far as I know, they're all the same Vim under the hood.

Cheers,

  Phil...

-- 
currently (ab)using
CentOS 6.3, Debian Squeeze, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Precise


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