vim and /etc/alternatives

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> I want vim to open an X connection over forwarded X. And it does not fail.

Why do you want that? vim is a console app, it just needs a terminal.

> Also, I don't say that it should be the default, I just want to be able to
> have vim symlinked to gvim binary without having to use ugly hacks.

Why don't you want to use gvim for gvim and vim for the console vim?
There are 2 different apps with different names, what is the problem? 

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Pat