On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:30:10AM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 2000-07-17-09:26:17 Mostly Harmless:
> > Is there an easy way to specify my editor as gvim if I'm in x, and vim
> > if I'm connected from a remote machine via ssh?
>
> Ayup. Use a wrapper script. Set the EDITOR environment variable, or
> mutt's editor config variable, to the name of a wrapper script, and
> let logic in that wrapper script decide. E.g.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> test -n "SSH_TTY" && exec vim ${1+"$@"}
> test -n "$DISPLAY" && exec gvim ${1+"$@"}
> exec vim ${1+"$@"}
>
> -Bennett
Since we're OT I'll continue... :^)
Or, you could go to ftp.cs.pdx.edu:/pub/elvis and get the elvis source,
and build it. Elvis notices on its own whether you are in a GUI or not
and runs itself in the appropriate mode. Excellent vi clone.
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