Re: [Evolution] evolution gvim integration

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:16 +0530, Bharath wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 00:18 -0400, Jacob Beard wrote:
> > Hi, I've just started using Evolution, and I'm wondering if it's
> > possible to use gvim to edit my emails? The only reference I could
> > find to gvim on the evolution site was here:
> >
> > http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/meeting-logs/2007-10-31.shtml
> >
> > Please let me know. Thanks,
>
> A reworked External Editor plugin is now committed
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567145
>
> This is available as part of 2.27.1, as an experimental plugin. It can
> be moved to the standard ones now I guess. Srini, Matt??
>
> Regards,
> --Bharath

This is very cool -- thank you.

Two questions

On invocation of the external editor, would it be possible to pass line/column information to the external 
editor so that the cursor would be positioned in the same location as in the composer?

EX:
gvim -f +call cursor($line,$col)

And, could the plugin utilize a constant prefix for the gvim tmp file ala
/tmp/.evo4XRLUU rather than just /tmp/.4XLRUU ( the /tmp/.4XLRUU is the tmp file name created for this email 
-- used as an example)  That way, users can set their [g]vimrc file to recognize the files as emails ala...

" set up syntax highlighting for my e-mail
au BufRead,BufNewFile .followup,.article,.letter,/tmp/.evo*,/tmp/pico*,nn.*,snd.*,/tmp/mutt* :set ft=mail

I'll try to find a few minutes to look through the plugin code and see if it's something that I might be able 
to provide a patch[es] for.

thanks,
reid