[Zope] External Editor

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:18:44PM -0500, Michael Long wrote:
> I have installed the External Editor client on windows XP Pro and
> configured it to use gvim. First let me say that this is a great
> product. I am having a problem whenever I close a file after editing it.
> I get an error message saying that "External editor lost connection to
> editor process." The only thing I have been able to find is this is from
> the External editor site:
>
> *If the editor launches, but the helper app complains that it lost its
> connection to the editor process, this is because your editor detached
> from the parent process (the helper app). Configure the editor such that
> it does not do this. Unfortunately, many MDI applications do this and
> cannot be configured otherwise. Look for a solution to this in a later
> version of external editor.
> 
> Does anyone have any hints on how to "configure the editor"?

On Linux I have to specify 'gvim -f' as the editor.  Perhaps this would
help on XP as well.

Marius Gedminas
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