On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:23 PM, James Vega <james...@debian.org> wrote: > This works just fine here. What does ":echo $SHELL" say in gvim? How > are you starting it? > > Even when it works, though, it's a very basic terminal emulation. > You're better off using an actual terminal instead of the emulation gvim > provides.
:echo $SHELL says: /bin/bash. It functions, but fails to display more than a line at a time, which makes it very un-useful. I find it useful enough to be able to call aspell, wc etc. from within text files, view filesystem or whatever, without having to switch windows. Slainte, J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org