Starting gvim from Windows

Neil Watson cygwin@watson-wilson.ca
Thu Mar 9 15:04:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:52:51AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>That helped.  The orginal error no longer appears.  Now I get the error
>>'cannot open display'.  X is running.
>
>And your DISPLAY environment variable is set to...?

Ah ha!  I set my DISPLAY Windows variable to 127.0.0.1:0.0.  Now it
works.  Thank you.

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