On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:44:59PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: | Is there a command line switch to tell vim to not try and use the gtk | portions? Emacs does a similar thing (tries to use X) to me if I forget | the -nw switch on it. I'm guessing it's a default to try and be the | most resource hungry editor it can be ;>. Yes -- run 'vim' instead of 'gvim'. The 'g' means "GUI". -D