On 25/07/12 15:29, Asis Hallab wrote:
Dear Vimers,


I have vim 7.2 installed on a Ubuntu 10.04

If I start Vim, not gVim (!), in a terminal with
vim --servername VIM

and subsequently issue the command
:echo v:servername

I get a blank response.

The same in gvim returns 'VIM'

Does anyone know, what I am doing wrong?

This is the output of
vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Apr 16 2010 13:27:36)
Included patches: 1-330
Compiled by buildd@
Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
[...]

Works for me in Huge vim 7.3.615 with GTK2-GNOME GUI (on openSUSE 12.1), even when run in Console mode, but only in an xterm or konsole (emulated in an X11 virtual desktop), not in the Linux console (/dev/tty1 to /dev/tty6 and accessed by Ctrl-Alt-F1 to Ctrl-Alt-F6), because the latter have no access to the X server and therefore cannot send or receive the X messages which are the basis for Vim's client-server feature on systems other than MS-Windows.

See :help x11-clientserver


Best regards,
Tony.
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