Setting servername in vimrc as opposed to command line switch

Question

Is it possible to set vim's servername from my vimrc instead of using the --servername command line switch? If I try one of

set v:servername="TEX"
let v:servername="TEX"

I get unknown option error and cannot overwrite read-only variable error respectively.

Answer 1

According to documentation (:help v:servername) the v:servername variable is read only.

And according to source code serverRegisterName() in if_xcmdsrv.c is called from three places:

• main() function
• X11 main window initialization
• GTK+ main window initialization

So the answer to your question is no, you can't set server name in your .vimrc or anywhere else except command line arguments.