Hi folks, In my .bashrc file, I set and export a variable. However, I found out that setting this variable is causing issues with an application (vim, in case you were wondering). Is there any way to unset the variable globally (without rebooting my machine)? I can unset it on a terminal using unset and then invoke vim and it works fine. But, when I click on the icon, it always gives me problems. Thanks for your help!

Have you ever considered using environmental variable EXINIT to modify your vi environment? For example, this unsets showmode: export EXINIT='set noshowmode'

Hi. Thanks for your reply. I was not familiar with the EXINIT variable, so thanks for the education! I was able to resolve the issue by restarting X. It would be nice to know how to unset a variable without restarting X, though. Cheers.

XX=496 echo $XX 496 unset XX echo $XX #gone