On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 10:20 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:16 +0530, Bharath wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 00:18 -0400, Jacob Beard wrote:
> > > Hi, I've just started using Evolution, and I'm wondering if it's
> > > possible to use gvim to edit my emails? The only reference I could
> > > find to gvim on the evolution site was here:
> > >
> > > http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/meeting-logs/2007-10-31.shtml
> > >
> > > Please let me know. Thanks,
> >
> > A reworked External Editor plugin is now committed
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567145
> >
> > This is available as part of 2.27.1, as an experimental plugin. It can
> > be moved to the standard ones now I guess. Srini, Matt??
> >
> > Regards,
> > --Bharath
> >
>
> This is very cool -- thank you.
>
> Two questions
>
> On invocation of the external editor, would it be possible to pass
> line/column information to the external editor so that the cursor would be
> positioned in the same location as in the composer?
>
> EX:
> gvim -f +call cursor($line,$col)
>
> And, could the plugin utilize a constant prefix for the gvim tmp file ala
> /tmp/.evo4XRLUU rather than just /tmp/.4XLRUU ( the /tmp/.4XLRUU is the tmp
> file name created for this email -- used as an example) That way, users can
> set their [g]vimrc file to recognize the files as emails ala...
>
> " set up syntax highlighting for my e-mail
> au BufRead,BufNewFile
> .followup,.article,.letter,/tmp/.evo*,/tmp/pico*,nn.*,snd.*,/tmp/mutt* :set
> ft=mail
>
> I'll try to find a few minutes to look through the plugin code and see if
> it's something that I might be able to provide a patch[es] for.
>
> thanks,
> reid
>
>
>
>
Second request is fairly simple...
diff --git a/plugins/external-editor/external-editor.c
b/plugins/external-editor/external-editor.c
index a07bb6e..c16ecff 100644
--- a/plugins/external-editor/external-editor.c
+++ b/plugins/external-editor/external-editor.c
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ async_external_editor (EMsgComposer *composer)
gchar *editor_cmd_line = NULL;
gint fd;
- fd = g_file_open_tmp (NULL, &filename, NULL);
+ fd = g_file_open_tmp ("evoXXXXXX", &filename, NULL);
if (fd > 0) {
close (fd);
/* Push the text (if there is one) from the composer to the
file */
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