Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

On 28/09/11 17:50, Fernando Basso wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 28, 10:58 am, Quincy Bowers<qui...@quakbo.com> wrote:
>> Make sure you setup External Editor to call 'gvim --nofork' or it won't work
>> properly. Other than that I can't imagine what would be wrong.
>
> It still doesn't work. Even using gvim --nofork.
>

Try setting your External Editor preferences to call gvim with not only
--nofork (or -f) but also a full path, i.e., not just

gvim --nofork

but something like

/usr/local/bin/gvim -f
or
C:\PROGRA~1\vim\vim73\gvim.exe -f
etc.


Best regards,
Tony.
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-- Lily Tomlin

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