[vox-tech] vim question

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:59:11 -0800


damn, matt.  you're good!   :)

i thought rusty used debian though.  this doesn't seem like something
debian would do...

pete

begin Matt Roper <matt@mattrope.com> 
> 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