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List:       sylpheed
Subject:    [sylpheed:27705] Re: Mail contents lost when external editor is
From:       Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds () MegaCoder ! com>
Date:       2006-03-21 10:57:30
Message-ID: 20060321045730.84f951a9.Tommy.Reynolds () MegaCoder ! com
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Uttered "Amarendra Godbole" <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com>, spake thus:

> I am using sylpheed 2.2.3 on Debian sarge. Previously, my external
> editor was `gedit', and when launched, the present contents of the
> mail were properly copied in the editor. But if I set the external
> editor to `gvim', I lose all the present contents of the compose
> window.

Be sure to use the "-f" switch in the gvim command.  Below is the one
I use:

gvim -c 'set wm=11' -f '%s'

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