Re: Please help validate my ~/.vimrc configuration for Python

On 8/18/25 09:07, Alex Kleider via Tutor wrote:

>> The Debian package maintainer has decided that people who want that support
>> need to install either 'vim-gtk3' package (GTK3 is a GUI toolkit, so that's
>> what you need to run vim under X-Windows), or 'vim-nox' ("nox" = no
>> X-Windows) to run vim in a text-only environment.
> 
> That's very helpful and kind of you to explain all this.
> Is it reasonable for me to assume that I could uninstall vim and
> install vim-nox and after that, if i didn't like my 'new' vim I could
> revert to what I have now by simply uninstalling vim-nox and
> reinstalling vim? I'd like to try that unless you warn me about some
> "gotcha"s that I might encounter.
Lots of different ways to package. On Fedora/Red Hat I install vim-x11 
to get the graphical environment (which provides the gvim, leaving 
vi/vim as the non-graphical one) - I don't like the gtk-styled one, so I 
pick this one. On this distro, the split between simpler and more 
advanced usage is between packages named vim-minimal and vim-enhanced. 
That's obviously different to the choices Debian has made.

Should be safe to change versions, none should change your personal 
config files, but go ahead and make a copy of your .vimrc anyway. You 
can also install the popular variant Neovim, which on my system at 
least, gives you a binary named nvim - a nicer terminal-based 
environment that can live alongside your vim choice.


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