Use gvim with mutt to compose email
I currently have the mutt editor set to vim. I would like to use gvim instead, but when I specify gvim and start a reply to an email, gvim starts with an empty screen. Is there a way to get mutt to start gvim with the message already loaded? Thanks.
Re: Use gvim with mutt to compose email
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, April 6 at 09:01 PM, quoth Dave Feustel: I currently have the mutt editor set to vim. I would like to use gvim instead, but when I specify gvim and start a reply to an email, gvim starts with an empty screen. Is there a way to get mutt to start gvim with the message already loaded? The reason that gvim starts with an empty screen is because of the way it detaches itself from the terminal. The way mutt handles the editor is by creating a temporary file for the message, launching the editor, and waiting for it to exit. When (as far as mutt can tell) the editor exits, it reads and then deletes the temporary file. When you launch gvim, it creates a second gvim process that is detached from the terminal, and then the first (original) one exits. Mutt notices that this first one exited, and so deletes the temporary file. Thus, by the time the second gvim process has gotten underway, the temporary file is gone. More importantly, mutt is no longer paying attention to whatever gvim might do. The way to fix this situation is to prevent gvim from disconnecting itself from the terminal, so that mutt can properly wait for it. Do this by setting $editor to gvim -f Make sense? ~Kyle - -- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -- Abraham Lincoln -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iEYEARECAAYFAknaP9EACgkQBkIOoMqOI16FOwCgmaaeReRStRISK4nPv2JcZWKU ALYAoLL86h3TvmcQFm+xKle/767WXqbW =Nhfk -END PGP SIGNATURE-
vim ou gvim
Bonjour, J'aimerais utiliser gvim à la place de vim en tant qu'éditeur par défaut pour mutt. (set editor=gvim). Malheuresement, gvim ne communique pas bien avec mutt contrairement à vim. Pas de texte lors d'un réponse à un mail, pas d'insertion de ma signature, et lors de la sauvegarde du message à envoyer, mutt m'annonce abandon, message non modifié. J'ai loupé quelque chose ou ce n'est pas possible d'associer gvim à mutt. Merci d'avance -- Eric Santonacci TALC Informatique http://www.talc.fr
Re: gvim
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:37:06PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: I doubt that's the problem he's having as I use vim and it works fine but if I change the vim line to gvim, it does the same thing he describes. No signature and doesn't actually save the message... Yes, that's because it's forking. The process that mutt is waiting to return returns right away, and meanwhile gvim runs in a child process. Use the -f option to prevent this. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com:8080
gvim
Can anyone explain how to use gvim with mutt? mutt and gvim fail to get my signature into the message and mutt is always telling me that gvim didn't modify my message, so why don't I abort. Thanks. -- "Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." - Dark Helmet, Spaceballs "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline; it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa
Re: gvim
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:57:04PM -0400, Mostly Harmless wrote: Can anyone explain how to use gvim with mutt? mutt and gvim fail to get my signature into the message and mutt is always telling me that gvim didn't modify my message, so why don't I abort. set editor='gvim -f' The -f tells gvim not to fork. Otherwise, mutt can't wait for the gvim process to return. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com:8080
Re: gvim
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:57:04PM -0400, Mostly Harmless muttered: Can anyone explain how to use gvim with mutt? mutt and gvim fail to get my signature into the message and mutt is always telling me that gvim didn't modify my message, so why don't I abort. I suspect that your .muttrc is not set up correctly for your signature. It provides the siganture before feeding the message boilerplate to your editor. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley PGP signature
Re: gvim
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 02:11:22PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:57:04PM -0400, Mostly Harmless muttered: Can anyone explain how to use gvim with mutt? mutt and gvim fail to get my signature into the message and mutt is always telling me that gvim didn't modify my message, so why don't I abort. I suspect that your .muttrc is not set up correctly for your signature. It provides the siganture before feeding the message boilerplate to your editor. I doubt that's the problem he's having as I use vim and it works fine but if I change the vim line to gvim, it does the same thing he describes. No signature and doesn't actually save the message... Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612)-321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: vim -g/gvim problem
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:30:19PM +, Henning 'Faroul' Peters wrote: Am Tue, May 25, 1999 at 05:03:23PM +0300 schrieb Saku Ytti: For some reason if I use gvim/vim -g as my $EDITOR I always get 'Aborted unmodified message.' and vim -g opens on my screen with proper filename and it's completely empty. This works perfectly with other programs. Same happens to me on AMIGA some times ago... gvim seems to detach from the shell - and mutt "thinks", the editor exits. There's a flag (-x?) to tell vim not to detach from the starting shell. The flag is -f, for foreground. -- Paul Ackersviller
vim -g/gvim problem
For some reason if I use gvim/vim -g as my $EDITOR I always get 'Aborted unmodified message.' and vim -g opens on my screen with proper filename and it's completely empty. This works perfectly with other programs. -- --ytti - ::3585:0512:1378
Re: vim -g/gvim problem
Saku Ytti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason if I use gvim/vim -g as my $EDITOR I always get 'Aborted unmodified message.' and vim -g opens on my screen with proper filename and it's completely empty. Vim probably forks itself into the background, thinking that you must be at a shell prompt and you want to have your prompt back so you can type another command. But instead, Mutt is waiting for the editor to finish, and when it returns control back to Mutt, the file has not been touched, so Mutt aborts, and deletes the file before gvim can really get a good look at it. Don't let vim background itself. -- David DeSimone | "The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that there is no man really clever who has not Hewlett-Packard | found that he is stupid." -- Gilbert K. Chesterson Convex Division |PGP: 5B 47 34 9F 3B 9A B0 0D AB A6 15 F1 BB BE 8C 44
Re: vim -g/gvim problem
Am Tue, May 25, 1999 at 05:03:23PM +0300 schrieb Saku Ytti: For some reason if I use gvim/vim -g as my $EDITOR I always get 'Aborted unmodified message.' and vim -g opens on my screen with proper filename and it's completely empty. This works perfectly with other programs. Same happens to me on AMIGA some times ago... gvim seems to detach from the shell - and mutt "thinks", the editor exits. There's a flag (-x?) to tell vim not to detach from the starting shell. Faroul -- Henning `Faroul' Peters - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.beyond.kn-bremen.de - PBeMs, Rollenspiel, LARP, DragonDice If a=b and b=c, then we've got a messed up alphabet.
