Re: Determining if Vim is running in text-console mode or X Windows

On 02/02/11 01:51, Marvin Renich wrote:
> * Steve Laurie<mr.steven.laurie@gmail.com> [110201 06:57]:
>> Thanks for your help. unfortunately, none of these suggestions work.
> Hmm. You say in your original message that you have tried
> has("gui_running"). This works for me (and has for a long time).
>
> As a test, I put
>
> let my_has_gui_running = has("gui_running")
>
> early in my .vimrc. If I start vim from the command line and type
>
> :echo my_has_gui_running
>
> I get 0. If I do the same with gvim (or vim -g) I get 1. Using
>
> if has("gui_running")
> echo "has gui_running"
> else
> echo "does not have gui_running"
> endif
>
> in .vimrc prints (to the terminal before setting up the vim screen) the
> correct string for both vim and gvim.
>
> I am using vim 7.2.445 from Debian squeeze.
>
> ...Marvin
>
Hi Marvin,

On my system, "gui_running" only distinguishes between Vim and gvim.

I put let my_has_gui_running = has("gui_running") early in my ~/.vimrc
file and did :echo my_has_gui_running

In Vim run from the black and white tty text console, I get 0;
In Vim run insde of gnome-terminal, I also get 0;
In gvim, I get a 1

That's why it's not working. I'm trying to distinguish between tty text
mode and X mode.
Not between Vim and gvim.

Regards,
Steve

the problem with this is if I use "gui_running"

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