What is “the Wayland UI,” anyway? Is this like that vim gui program that some Windows users use?
replyUsually vim runs I’m the terminal, so I don’t have any worries about losing support. But other people have other use-cases, of course…
Unless I'm misunderstanding the problem, Wayland is available on FreeBSD.
replySome people hate wayland.
replyThose people can contribute to Xorg server further development.
replyThe thing that kicked off this thread was hope that vim will continue to support X11. No need for continued X development really.
replyOn the contrary, because you will want to have those drivers when the time comes to reinstall the system with more modern hardware.
replyWithout X Server support at the OS level for the new hardware, doesn't really matter if vim supports it on its source code.
But surely not every BSD user?
replyNot every BSD user, but the one you're responding to is most likely in that camp.
replyThere's always TECO! <Joking>
replyWhy would they do that? When I started learning VIM more than 20 years ago, one of the main reason was that it (or vi) was already present and installed in every possible Linux system.
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