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

[Daniel C. <dan...@gm...>]

Hi Hannes!

This patch is nice! But out of the reasons that also Matthew Carter mentioned
this doesn't work if the EDITOR is vim and vimprobable is started via dmenu or
as shortcut from tabbed. Until today I expected only cli tools to evaluate the
EDITOR environment variable and I set it to vim. For a grafically tool like
vimprobable I would preferable launch a grafical editor like gvim. But I'm
averse to change the EDITOR to gvim, because I use many tools on cli that
evaluates also the EDITOR variable and I don't want them to open gvim.

Wouldn't it be a compromise to have a configuration for the editor in
vimprobablerc and on runtime to set the editor in a way like: set editor="gvim
%s"? This would allow the user to easily change the editor and also to launch
a cli editor in a way like 'set editor="urxvt -e vim %s"'? If the
configuration isn't set a fallback to the $EDITOR would be nice or we set the
default value to 'vim' or better 'vi' (is posix conform an on most systems
aliased to vim) which should be a good choice for a browser that aims to apply
the usage paradigms from vim to a grafically browser.

Daniel