You might try: editor = c:\path\to\vim -f or editor = c:\path\to\vim /f Not sure how it parses switches on Windows. It doesn't do this on my windoze box though, it launches gvim just fine with no options. I really can't explain notepad either. That never detaches unless they changed it significantly on XP, hehe. AFAIK notepad hasn't been touched for years. It might mean something different is wrong, although I can't say what. -Casey On Thursday 06 March 2003 03:20 pm, Michael Long wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I am baffled because I have the same setup. If I use notepad.exe instead of gvim.exe I also get the same message. It must be a configuration issue specific to my machine. Does anyone else have any ideas?

Cheers, Mike

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Michael wrote on Thursday, March 6, 2003, 1:18:44 PM:

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Does anyone have any hints on how to "configure the editor"?

I'm using ExternalEditor with gvim on XP Pro, as you are. I did no special configuration (that I can recall) beyond the simple:

editor = h:\vim\gvim.exe

in the ZopeEdit.ini

Works great. I don't experience any "connection lost" problems. So this message is not much help, except to say i don't think that snippet you quoted from the ZopeEditor site applies here.

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