kmail is not opening files in vim

[Justin Denick]

I think vim is a terminal application. Meaning you must first open a
terminal and then you must call vim with the file you want to edit.



create a text file and enter the following into it. Then use this file to
open the attachment.

#!/bin/bash
konsole -e vim $1



On 11/17/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju at bluebottle.com> wrote:
>
> I recently got an attachment in kmail and I did
>
> right click -> Open with -> entered vim in the box.
>
> but kmail did not open the file in vim. If I enter gvim, then an empty
> gvim
> window comes up but the file is not loaded.
>
> Any idea as to what is happening and how to rectify the problem?
>
> Using Debian Etch, KDE 3.5.5, vim 7.0.
>
> thanks
> raju
>
> --
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
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