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

>>> So you basically distinguish it by inspecting your $TERM variable. First
>>> determine in both situations what your $TERM is set to, then put something
>>> like this in your .vimrc
>> Ah, I mis-read the post. Clearer now :)
>>
> Thanks for your help. unfortunately, none of these suggestions work.
>
> If I had some way of changing $TERM from cons25 to xterm-256color when Xorg starts
> up, that would work.
> I tried putting export TERM="xterm-256color" in my .xinitrc file but it doesn't
> change.
> I also tried exporting it from Window Maker's
> ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart file but that didn't work either.
>
> I can't get it to change from cons25

This seems very strange. $TERM is usually set appropriately by your
terminal program in X.

Are you sure something else isn't changing it, e.g. ~/.profile,
~/.bashrc, /etc/profile (or other rc files for your shell)? Or is there
an option in the GUI for your X terminal that has been incorrectly set
to make $TERM something it shouldn't be?

You are using Vim in a terminal, either in the console or in an X
terminal, right? Not Gvim.

Ben.

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