Hello! When I "su" to root and start "vi", a bunch of these messages appear: Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Chris Howie explained: > vim tries to connect X for access to the X clipboard. > > :help x11-selection I think this is not a clever thing to do. Obviously, when I enter 'vi' in a shell, I do not want to use the X11 GUI in any way. If I wanted to, I'd enter 'gvim'. This problem only appears when I "su" to root. To fix it, I created a vim configuration file /root/.vimrc containing the following line: set clipboard=exclude:.* As described in :help options, this has the same effect as using the -X argument on the command line (which fixes this problem, too). Cheers Daniel Kabs -- Refactor, don't archive! - SamHasler - 28 Aug 2004 - twiki.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
