[gentoo-user] Re: vim USE flag: vim-with-x

[Moshe Kaminsky]

* Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> [27/01/06 10:18]:
>
> 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

Did you set DISPLAY before running mutt/slrn?

Moshe

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