On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:13:24AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote > "+ and "* , but only if you USE="vim-with-x".
Did that, and it doesn't seem to help. Here's my status... [m3000][root][~] emerge --pretend --verbose vim These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-6.4 -acl -bash-completion -cscope -gpm -minimal -nls -perl -python -ruby +vim-with-x 0 kB Let me re-iterate what I'm trying to do... - In X, highlight a text string (e.g. a URL) in Firefox - hit {CTRL}{ALT}{F1}, taking me to a *REAL TEXT CONSOLE* running mutt or slrn, with vim as the editor - paste the complex URL directly into a message I'm composing with vim -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list