Bug#848100: neovim-qt: Please install as alternative for "gvim"

Philipp Marek philipp.marek at linbit.com
Fri Dec 16 07:25:36 UTC 2016


Hi James,

thank you for your help!


> > Please install a gvim alternative:
> >     # update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gvim gvim /usr/bin/nvim-qt 50
> 
> Sounds reasonable.  jpleau is looking into that.
Thanks!

> > BTW, the initial size of the nvim-qt window is ~9 by 4 characters for me... 
> > shouldn't nvim-qt have some more sane defaults?
> 
> I don't see that here.  What happens if you run "nvim-qt -- -u NONE"?
> If that works fine, then there's some configuration/plugin that's
> affecting this.
Hrmm, yeah, you're right again.

I notice that usr_31.txt is not updated - ":winpos" says "not implemented", 
changing "columns" or "lines" makes no difference, ...


If I've got a gvim trace file ("-V255/tmp/gvim-trace"), what could I search 
for to find out which plugin causes that?



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