On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 11:58 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 11:06 -0400, Reid.Thompson wrote: > > Setting $EDITOR to "gvim -f" results in invocation > > failure. > > Have you tried writing a script that runs gvim -f, then using that > script as $EDITOR? > > I can't recall whether it's generally considered "OK" for $EDITOR to > contain any arguments; whether applications are required to parse it up > into words. Of course, probably they should just invoke system() with > the value inserted at the beginning... but if Evo tries to use fork/exec > directly instead you might hit this problem. > > setting $EDITOR to a script to init a non-forking gvim does appear to work
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