Re: [Evolution] HDU stop reply response lines from being prefixed by '>'

["Reid.Thompson" <reid thompson ateb com>]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 11:58 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 11:06 -0400, Reid.Thompson wrote:
> > Setting $EDITOR to "gvim -f" results in invocation
> > failure.
>
> Have you tried writing a script that runs gvim -f, then using that
> script as $EDITOR?
>
> I can't recall whether it's generally considered "OK" for $EDITOR to
> contain any arguments; whether applications are required to parse it up
> into words.  Of course, probably they should just invoke system() with
> the value inserted at the beginning... but if Evo tries to use fork/exec
> directly instead you might hit this problem.
setting $EDITOR to a script to init a non-forking gvim does appear to
work

rthompso raker ~ $ cat ~/bin/viminit 
#!/bin/bash

gvim -f $*