Re: I had to replace gvim with neovim
Steve Litt <[email protected]>
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Gary Johnson said on Wed, 28 Feb 2024 06:45:04 -0800 >On 2024-02-28, Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The gvim program became too much of a hassle because it printed all >> sorts of GTk errors and warnings to the terminal, obliterating >> valuable information that was there. So I had to uninstall Vim and >> install neovim, which isn't as good, but all those GTk warnings were >> messing up my workflow. >> >> If anyone knows how to use gvim without all those GTk warnings, I'd >> like to hear it. > >Hi Steve, > >I can't test this because I don't get those warnings, but I'm >assuming they are printed to standard error. Try starting gvim this >way and see if the warnings go away. > > $ gvim 2> /dev/null Thanks Gary, I should have thought of that. I followed your advice and renamed /usr/bin/gvim to gvim.warnings, and then made a shellscript called gvim to call it, piping stderr to /dev/null. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20240228210335.543b9d32%40mydesk.domain.cxm.