On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:50:53PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > Hi (I'm going to attempt to be clear the first time around) > > Before: > When only vim was installed, I would ssh to my box, and vim a file. like > when on the console, all I'd have in my ssh session was a vim session till I > qw > > After I installed vim-perl: > - vim now wants an xserver running, regardless if I'm asking for a gui vim > or not. > - when I gvim a file everything happens as I expect. I get an X application > pop up on my screen in addition to my ssh session. > - when I vim a file and don't have an xserver running I get and error: > X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server > shutdown). > - when I vim a file and DO have an xserver running, i get vim in my ssh > client like i did in the "before" situation > > Is this the expected behavior? I would have though, I'd only need my > xserver running if I asked for an x application (gvim or vim -g)
I think it vim's behaviour in this instance depends upon what libraries the vim binary is linked against. This doesn't really answer the why, but vim -X instructs vim not to request a connection to the X server. Nice over slow links even when you *do* have an available X server. -troy _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
