[PLUG] setting default editor

[Kyle Hayes]

On Saturday 13 December 2003 13:25, Carla Schroder wrote:
> O Great Gurus,
>
> Since Kmail does not respect environment variables, I've been tinkering
> with setting it to use an external editor. It's easy to configure a
> graphical editor like gvim in the KMail settings, but what I'd really
> like to do is run vim. Obviously vim needs a shell to run in. I've
> tried different combinations, like 'xterm vim %f', and other
> combinations, but it doesn't work.
>
> Yes I read the Kmail help. :)
>
> any ideas? I don't know if this is even possible, it probably isn't, but
> what the heck, you don't know til you try.

kvim.  Google for it.  Not sure where the site is.  Kvim is a wrapper around 
vim for KDE and I'm fairly sure it is a kpart too.  I think it will be 
embeddable.

I haven't had any problems directly contacting the kmail folks on their 
mailing lists.  Drop them a note.

Best,
Kyle