Bug 9200

Summary:	vim contacts DISPLAY even in non-gui mode
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho>
Component:	vim	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Kjetil T. Homme 2000-02-08 01:56:32 UTC

Try:

DISPLAY=haey.ifi.uio.no:0 TERM=xterm
export DISPLAY TERM
vim

You will be greeted by
X connection to haey.ifi.uio.no:0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).

This is due to the vim code unconditionally contacting the X server
even in text mode!  That's just utterly bogus, IMO.

The offending feature is XTERM_CLIP.

Workaround:  Set TERM to vt102 instead of xterm...

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-02-10 15:05:59 UTC

This should be fixed in vim-5.6-4 in Raw Hide or vim-5.6-5 in Piglet.  Please
reopen this bug if you find that upgrading the vim-enhanced package does not
correct the problem.