Re: [Vimprobable-users] Editor patch, revised

[Hannes S. <ha...@yl...>]

Hi,

thanks, Markus, for this patch.

Jason Ryan <jas...@gm...> wrote:
> > I've taken Hannes' patch for the external editor and changed it to
> > emply the handler mechanism.  Basically, you say
> > 
> > handler vimprobableedit vim -gf %s
> > 
> > in your vimprobablerc, and when hitting ^t in a text field, you'll
> > get a gvim window.
> >   
> I don't have gvim installed, so I used:
> handler vimprobableedit urxvtc -e vim %s
> 
> and the term opens, I compose my message and then, when I exit the
> term, the file exists in /tmp/vimprobableXXXX but nothing is printed
> to the text field in vimprobable.

This is exactly the problem I've sketched in the conclusion post of the
old thread: The symmetric spawn operation which I initially wrote is
probably not suited for quite a number of editors which will return
after the opening operation immediately. Hence my plan/suggestion to
use an asymmetric operation and watch the file for changes through
another process instead. Which, of course, would be much more complex
to implement.

The major question for me here (which I think should be decided before
any further coding) is whether we do need asymmetric operation or not.
If not, we will need to document this in the wiki as well as possible
which editors will work and which won't.

Hannes