[PLUG] setting default editor

[Colin Kuskie]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:25:36PM -0800, 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.

Why use two processes for the price of 1?

gvim -f $*

Colin