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Re: How does shell decide between gui vim & terminal vim?

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From: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>
To: zzapper <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: How does shell decide between gui vim & terminal vim?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 15:37:41 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, at 9:19 AM, zzapper wrote:
> I am using a shell (/bin/sh) script which stubbornly calls the terminal 
> version of gvim instead of the desired GUI version (gtk).
>
> I suspect the script doesn't know there is a GUI but what decides that?

The vim documentation might know.

https://vimhelp.org/gui.txt.html
https://vimhelp.org/gui_x11.txt.html

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vq

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- How does shell decide between gui vim & terminal vim?
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