2012/7/26 Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> > On 25/07/12 15:29, Asis Hallab wrote: > >> Dear Vimers, >> >> >> I have vim 7.2 installed on a Ubuntu 10.04 >> >> If I start Vim, not gVim (!), in a terminal with >> vim --servername VIM >> >> and subsequently issue the command >> :echo v:servername >> >> I get a blank response. >> >> The same in gvim returns 'VIM' >> >> Does anyone know, what I am doing wrong? >> >> This is the output of >> vim --version >> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Apr 16 2010 13:27:36) >> Included patches: 1-330 >> Compiled by buildd@ >> Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): >> > [...] > > Works for me in Huge vim 7.3.615 with GTK2-GNOME GUI (on openSUSE 12.1), > even when run in Console mode, but only in an xterm or konsole (emulated in > an X11 virtual desktop), not in the Linux console (/dev/tty1 to /dev/tty6 > and accessed by Ctrl-Alt-F1 to Ctrl-Alt-F6), because the latter have no > access to the X server and therefore cannot send or receive the X messages > which are the basis for Vim's client-server feature on systems other than > MS-Windows. > > It works. I was accessing my Workstation via ssh. Using ssh -X does the trick. Now I see the v:servername VIM. Thanks a lot!
> See :help x11-clientserver > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
