First off, xterm means terminal. There is no graphical ability associated with it.
It all depends on what your trying to accomplish. The method you described is generally used to ssh into a linux box from a cygwin xterm and run vim in that ssh session on the remote linux box. 1. Google cygwin xterm xwindows to find instructions about how to get an X server running through cygwin. I've done it before and I do like it more than putty. 2. you need an ssh deamon setup on the server to accept incoming ssh connections. The server also needs vim installed. Once you ssh to the server, you start vim in the ssh. 3. You can start remote X applications over ssh (google it) ie. Gvim, but unless both sides have very good connections it will be too laggy. Another option is to use vim/gvim locally and use netrw to open and save remote files. In my situation this works best. See :h netrw in vim. - Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
