On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 12:21 -0400, Reid.Thompson wrote:
> 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
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat ~/bin/viminit 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> gvim -f $*

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