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Make gvim-only colorschemes work transparently in terminal vim
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Closed phildobbin closed 12 years ago

phildobbin commented 12 years ago

I'm getting

CSApprox needs gui support - not loading. See :help |csapprox-+gui| for possible workarounds. Press ENTER or type command to continue

on Fedora 14. I've had this issue before on Debian Squeeze & after following the steps in the :help referenced above, all's been fine. However, although CSApprox does its job perfectly on Fedora (i.e. console colours work great as expected) I can't get rid of the error message even though I've again followed the instructions in :help.

This is stopping me passing commands on the cli to Vim as the process is interrupted before Vim can handle the request.

Any help appreciated...

sunaku commented 12 years ago

If passing commands to Vim is more important than loading your vimrc, then try passing -u NONE to vim. That will bypass your vimrc (and thereby csapprox) completely, ensuring that your commands are propagated.

phildobbin commented 12 years ago

O.K. Thanks for your help. I'll figure out a way to do it without disabling everything.

godlygeek commented 12 years ago

Which solution there are you trying? Aliasing vim to gvim -v? Symlinking gvim to vim? What do you get if you run:

readlink -f which gvim

~Matt

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:10 AM, phildobbin reply@reply.github.com wrote:

I'm getting

CSApprox needs gui support - not loading.  See :help |csapprox-+gui| for possible workarounds. Press ENTER or type command to continue

on Fedora 14. I've had this issue before on Debian Squeeze & after following the steps in the :help referenced above, all's been fine. However, although CSApprox does its job perfectly on Fedora (i.e. console colours work great as expected) I can't get rid of the error message even though I've again followed the instructions in :help.

This is stopping me passing commands on the cli to Vim as the process is interrupted before Vim can handle the request.

Any help appreciated...

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/godlygeek/csapprox/issues/8

phildobbin commented 12 years ago

Hi, Matt.

The colours are working fine in console Vim on Fedora as they do in OS X & Debian with CSApprox but for some reason on Fedora I'm still getting the error message about the GUI support not loading.

I didn't need to alias or symlink on Deb or OS X but I guess I can try it on Fedora to see if it cures the error message.

godlygeek commented 12 years ago

At least on Debian, it's normal for the vim binary to be a symlink for the gvim binary. Don't know about OS X. But that's a perfectly sane setup, and if you have the rights to do it, then it would be a reasonable thing to do on Fedora as well.

~Matt

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:11 PM, phildobbin reply@reply.github.com wrote:

Hi, Matt.

The colours are working fine in console Vim on Fedora as they do in OS X & Debian with CSApprox but for some reason on Fedora I'm still getting the error message about the GUI support not loading.

I didn't need to alias or symlink on Deb or OS X but I guess I can try it on Fedora to see if it cures the error message.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/godlygeek/csapprox/issues/8#issuecomment-4563487

phildobbin commented 12 years ago

OK. I'm not in front of either of the Fedora boxes at the moment so, when I am, I'll go ahead & link them & let you know the outcome.

Thanks for your help.

phildobbin commented 12 years ago

I tried creating the symlink but it already existed:

ln: creating symbolic link /usr/bin/vim: File exists

& checking :echo ('has gui') returned 0 so all things considered I'm lucky CSApprox is working for me at all in the circumstances ( as I mentioned the colours are fine).

What I've done, seeing as I've all the rpms pertaining to Vim from yum & not wanting to actually uninstall it & compile from source just to get rid of one error message, is modify my bash script to allow time for Vim to catch the process.

Thanks for your help & sorry for the noise...

godlygeek commented 12 years ago

Save a backup of your vim binary, and then use ln -sf instead of ln -s to overwrite the binary with a symlink to gvim

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:03 AM, phildobbin reply@reply.github.com wrote:

I tried creating the symlink but it already existed:

ln: creating symbolic link /usr/bin/vim: File exists

& checking :echo ('has gui') returned 0 so all things considered I'm lucky CSApprox is working for me at all in the circumstances ( as I mentioned the colours are fine).

What I've done, seeing as I've all the rpms pertaining to Vim from yum & not wanting to actually uninstall it & compile from source just to get rid of one error message, is modify my bash script to allow time for Vim to catch the process.

Thanks for your help & sorry for the noise...

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/godlygeek/csapprox/issues/8#issuecomment-4595799

phildobbin commented 12 years ago

Thanks, Matt, I'll bear that in mind.

Don't think at the moment though, I'll do it 'cause I've already downloaded the source code from Mercurial for Vim & I think, having gathered up all the relevant dev/header files, I'll compile my own Vim as I did for OS X.

Many thanks for all your help...