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2.2 KiB
56 lines
2.2 KiB
15 years ago
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d1 1
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a1 1
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just a fake modif for kompare tests
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Index: README
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d1 114
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a114 2
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Yes, that's really a Vim Komponent :)
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Yes, you can have Vim inside KDE apps, you guessed it :)
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a115 40
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So, it's designed for KDE 3.x (if someone wants to port it to KDE 2 that
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should be easy), it uses GVim or KVim (even Motif Vim works) 6.x.
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It can be used in different apps :
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- KDevelop (version 3)
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- Konqueror (as a file viewer)
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- KWrite
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- KMail (coming in KDE 3.2)
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- Kompare, KBabel ........ ;)
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CONFIGURATION
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once you compiled and installed it as any other app,
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start your KDE Control Center, go to the file manager section
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and open the Vim Component configuration module.
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Here, you have to select a Vim executable which may be found on
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your computer (generally /usr/bin/vim) will do it fine for most
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linux distributions. All you need is that it's a GUI-enabled Vim 6.0 or
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better.
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Push the test button, if that's okay then that's should be enough to start
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using it :)
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FUNCTIONMENT
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Philippe Fremy (pfremy@kde.com) wrote the initial version of this kpart.
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The concept is to start a normal GUI Vim (like gvim), then "embeds" the Vim
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window into a KDE Widget.
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It used to be based on the ClientServer feature of Vim (type :help
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clientserver in Vim for more info) using external processus to control the
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embedded Vim. That was running quite fine, but was slow :/
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We changed that :)
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Now we communicate directly from the kpart to the embedded Vim thanks to X11
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without using externals processus. That's much faster and reliable ;)
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KVim has also another remote control system using KDE's DCOP communication
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backend.
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Currently I would advice people to use DCOP when running KVim and using X11
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communication with GVim (DCOP won't work with GVim anyway).
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There may be some differences in speed, though I have not noticed it here.
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The most important difference is that DCOP provides a signal system and that can
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make a difference to improve the interaction between KVim and the hosting
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application (KDevelop for example). But it's not yet used.
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a116 2
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Hope you'll enjoy Vim inside KDE :)
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Mickael "Mikmak" Marchand (marchand@kde.org)
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