Jame Vega wrote:

> I've noticed this for a little while with the vim7 snapshots.  If
> X is unreachable (either because $DISPLAY is unset or is set to
> something that can't be reached), "vim --help" will display the help
> except for the Gnome-specific section, the E233 error message and then
> start Vim.  If X is reachable, then all of the help will be displayed
> and Vim will not start, as expected.

When using Gnome the library does nasty things with the command line
arguments.  The gnome_program_init() call does this, if I remember
correctly.

This is one of the reasons why gnome is not the default.

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