Re: [vile] Unfamiliar scroll bar operation in Ubuntu build of xvile - how to use it?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:10:53AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 05:38:48PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:29:52AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:04:25PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > > > On 24 December 2011 08:49, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > hmm. ?I hadn't noticed. ?The Debian package is probably built using 
> > > > > the default
> > > > > Xaw scrollbars (though in my non-package builds I've been using 
> > > > > Kevin's
> > > > > improvement, which may be relevant).
> > > > 
> > > > The Debian package (which presumably the Ubuntu package is derived
> > > > from) specifies only --with-screen=Xaw and not --with-Xaw-scrollbars,
> > > > so gets OPT_KEV_SCROLLBARS is set.  I'm not entirely sure how Kevin's
> > > > scrollbar differs from default Xaw one, but it appears to operate in
> > > > pretty much the same way.
> > > > 
> > > I think I'll just get the source and build my own again.  :-)
> > > 
> > > [x]vile has few enough dependencies that it very rarely causes any
> > > issues on that front.
> > 
> > sounds good.  I hadn't gotten interested in the packaging aspect until
> > I found it would save time in setting up machines for testing...
> > 
> All I had to add (from the standard Ubuntu repositories) were
> libncurses5-dev and lesstif2-dev (for Motif widgets which is what I
> prefer).

They look nicer, but being able to drag the window boundary up/down
doesn't seem doable with Motif.
 
> I found that I couldn't add "--with-perl" to the configure options, even
> though I do have perl on this system, maybe it needs a perl -dev library
> added.  Do I lose anything significant by not having --with-perl?  It

something like that - seems to be libperl-dev on Debian, but there's
no standardization of package names.

> all seems to work as I expect without.  I hate perl anyway, the perfect
> language for writing obfuscated code without even trying!  :-)

There are scripts that are useful (when I check functionality though
I usually just look at hlgrep and directory).

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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