[H-GEN] Vim System Wide

[Sarah Walters]

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On 14 Oct 2003 Trent WADDINGTON <s337240 at student.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> I find VIM has this annoying behaviour of trying to connect to my X11
> session, even when I'm not using gvim.. it delays the loading of the file
> for 1 or 2 seconds which gets annoying fast.  Sometimes I actually get so
> annoyed that I 'export DISPLAY=' just so it will stop.  I spose there's
> nothing in that file that suggests a way to disable this behaviour.. I
> figure I'm going to have to recompile VIM with all graphical support
> disabled.

Gentoo (IANAGZ*) does this by default. To get vim, you "emerge vim", to 
get gvim you "emerge gvim". To get both, "emerge vim gvim". Both packages 
depend on vim-common, which is the libraries common to both. It's a really 
nice way to go about things. I get gvim when I want it, but when I'm
running over SSH I get vim. Yay :)

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Mrs Sarah Walters
Systems Group
Information Technology Services
University of Wollongong
Phone: +61 2 4221 3775


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