Re: DISPLAY and multiple ssh connections

[Jason Majors <jason@whizzird.net>]

> > This wouldn't bother me too much, but the app that complains is vim.
> > Not the gui version, the console version. I have version 5.8.007-4 instal
> led
> > of vim-rt and vim-gtk. I can't install just vim, because it conflicts with
> > vim-gtk, which for the most part provides the console version.
> > Is this a vim bug, or some special feature I'm unaware of?
> 
> No...
> 
> You can choose either console vim ( vim package )
> or _both_ console and gtk (vim-gtk package)  This is done for people who
> do
> n't 
> want to install xlibraries just to use vim.
> 
But why does the console call to vim check the DISPLAY variable? If I unset it,
vim runs just fine.