Re: [Vimprobable-users] [Ticket #9] Edit text areas using $EDITOR

[Jason R. <jas...@gm...>]

On 30/06/12 at 12:15am, Matthew Carter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Initial testing on Arch Linux (up to date).
> 
> Code failed to compile, required changing the following on 1825:
> 
> time_t id = time()
> 
> to
> 
> time_t id = time(NULL)
> 
> Not sure if that is specific to my machine or what.
>
Confirmed here.

> Test results with 'vim' as $EDITOR:
> 
> Calling vimprobable2 from the CLI causes it to properly pull up vim and
> take the text into the input after saving with :x
> 
> Calling from a menu (dmenu) does nothing (no terminal is brought up with
> vim loaded).
> 
Also confirmed, although I start the browser from a keybind in dwm

> Test results with 'gvim' as $EDITOR:
> 
> Editor pulls up fine in both cases, however text is never sent back to
> the input field.

I changed $EDITOR to leafpad and it worked as expected only after saving the
file to /tmp

Also, this functionality is very cool - thanks Hannes.

/J

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