which vim should I use in xubuntu / Ubuntu+XFCE?
Which vim should I use in xubuntu / Ubuntu+XFCE?
My current system is Ubuntu, but I have replaced the Unity interface with XFCE (via sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
). There is no vim installed at the moment:
$ vim --version
The program 'vim' 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>
I might have thought to use vim-gtk, but I'm not exactly sure--this guide here apparently suggests vim-gtk
is for users of KDE/Kubuntu. Which one should I install?
Install vim
if you want the text-mode interface or vim-gtk
if you want the GUI.
Basically vim-gtk
is the GUI version for anybody who doesn't want to install the Gnome2 libraries on which vim-gnome
depends and doesn't like the 1990s style of vim-athena