On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:11:33AM -0800, Henry House wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:59:11PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > damn, matt. you're good! :) > > > > i thought rusty used debian though. this doesn't seem like something > > debian would do... > > This can be due to vim being built with support for changing and restoring > the title of the terminal window in which it runs. This is true by default of > even the non-GTK version in Debian. > > If the error message under su-shell is bothersome, simply unset the DISPLAY > variable. Vim will no longer try to mess with the X display.
Also, vim -X #Do not connect to X server I have ssh forwarding my X connections, and that comes in handy, so I don't want to unset $DISPLAY. But having vim contact my Xserver over slow-ass dialup every time i reply to an e-mail is laggy and annoying, hence -X. I'm a new vim convert and found the vimtips at <http://vim.sourceforge.net/tip_download.php> to be very helpful as far as learning how to do stuff as well as just getting a better idea of all the cool stuff vim can do. There's some quick perl to pick out a random tip here: http://zenux.net/linux/vimtip.pl -ta _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
