Currently, I have a wrapper around vim to detect a tty, and launch x-terminal-emulator if vim doesn't have a tty but does have $DISPLAY. I'd love to have that functionality built in, instead, so that running "vim" would automatically bring up a vim window even when run from a graphical program without a tty. - Josh Triplett --- real paths of main Vim binaries --- /usr/bin/vi is /usr/bin/vim.basic /usr/bin/vim is /usr/bin/vim.basic