On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:52:20 +0100 Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 12:24:51PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > I'm using xfce4-terminal to run vim as external editor in Sylpheed. > > The command line I give is > > xfce4-terminal.wrapper -e vim %s > > but the terminal windows seems to be spawned before the temp file is > > ready, and as a result I can't edit the mail in vim. > > What makes the file be ready? Is this Sylpheed that does that? I don't know the inner mechanics of Sylpheed, but I guess it just creates a temp file containing you signature (if any) and lets the external editor handle it. > > This works perfectly if I use gnome-terminal.wrapper (except for the > > fact it takes a looong time to start ;) and also if I make a copy of > > gnome-terminal.wrapper and edit the last line to make it run > > xfce4-terminal instead. > > > I'm no Perl guru, so I can't help fixing the bug. > > Well I understand Perl but looking at both the gnome-terminal (2.18.1) > and xfce4-terminal wrapper scripts they are functionally the same to my > eyes. They look the same also to my eyes, but as I said, I don't know Perl that well. In fact, I was wrong. The "copy gnome-terminal.wrapper and replace the call" trick doesn't work. I don't know why I had this impression in the first place. Sorry for the noise. > They both just translate some arguments from one format to another and > then replace perl with the terminal using an exec() call. > > I think this is probably Sylpheed's bug if it doesn't create the file > until a little while after it spawns the editor but I'm not sure if that > is what you're describing. Then why it works with gnome-terminal, xterm and rxvt, but not with xfce4-terminal? (I did some testing making a copy of xfce4-terminal.wrapper and editing the called command. for xterm and rxvt, I modified the script not to use the -x instead of the -e option, since they natively support executing a command line with the -e option) So I guess the bug is not in the wrapper script, but in xfce4-terminal itself -- or in Sylpheed, but after testing it with three different terminal emulators, it seems unlikely. > What happens exactly in the case when the file isn't "ready" as you say? It is not consistent. Sometimes I get an empty file; other times I get a file containing my signature (as it should be), but when I save it the content is not passed over to Sylpheed's composing window. -- KiyuKo <eof AT kiyuko DOT org> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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