I loaded vim as vin-gtk so that may be the issue. I always run it as vim though.
Yes I do run debian sarge. Rusty On Tuesday 12 November 2002 04:59 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > damn, matt. you're good! :) > > i thought rusty used debian though. this doesn't seem like > something debian would do... > > pete > > begin Matt Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I think some distributions build the vim executable in such > > a way that the GTK interface is always used by default (i.e. > > without the -g option and without running 'gvim'). When > > Rustry tries to edit files as root, the GTK interface fails > > to connect to the X server so it falls back to the console > > interface after displaying the warning messages he > > describes. > > > > > > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
