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-*os_beos.txt* For Vim version 7.3g. Last change: 2005 Mar 29
+*os_beos.txt* For Vim version 7.3g. Last change: 2010 Aug 14
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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5. The BeOS GUI *beos-gui*
-Normally Vim starts with the GUI if you start it as gvim or vim -g. The BeOS
-version tries to determine if it was started from the Tracker instead of the
-Terminal, and if so, use the GUI anyway. However, the current detection scheme
-is fooled if you use the command "vim - </dev/null" or "vim filename &". The
-latter can be called a feature but probably only works because there is no
-BSD-style job control.
-
-Stuff that does not work yet:
-
-- Running external commands from the GUI does not work 100% (again due to lack
- of support for select()). There was a choice between seeing the command's
- output, or being able to interrupt it. I chose for seeing the output. Even
- now the command sometimes crashes mysteriously, apparently in Be's
- malloc_internal() called from the putenv() function, after fork()ing. (data
- access exception occurred, ec01b0ec: 90e80000 *stw r7, 0x0000 (r8)). (:!ls
- works usually, :r !ls usually doesn't). This has been reported as bug
- # 971215-083826.
-- The window title.
-- Starting the GUI from the Terminal version with :gui always acts as if
- :gui -f were used. There is no way to fix this that I can see.
-- There are some small display glitches here and there that I hope to clean up
- later. Most of them occur when the window is partially obscured. Some of
- them seem to be bugs in BeOS, because the Terminal has similar glitches.
-- Mouse up events are not generated when outside the window. This is a bug in
- BeOS. You can notice this when selecting text and moving the cursor outside
- the window, then letting go of the mouse button. Another way is when you
- drag the scrollbar and do the same thing. Because Vim still thinks you are
- still playing with the scrollbar it won't change it itself. I provided a
- workaround which kicks in when the window is activated or deactivated (so it
- works best with focus- follows-mouse (/boot/bin/ffm) turned on).
-- The cursor does not flash (very low priority; I'm not sure I even like it
- when it flashes)
+The BeOS GUI is no longer included. It was not maintained for a while and
+most likely didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
+and merge it back in.
6. The $VIM directory *beos-vimdir*