[Bug 169092] text entered in external editor not passed to composer window

[Garry Williams]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169092





--- Comment #8 from Garry Williams <gtwilliams gmail com>  2009-03-22 14:42:30 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> Kmail no longer has the original file open, but instead the backup file.

It's even worse than that.

For many years, I have configured vim to not create backup files.  The (g)vim
program creates a new file and renames it to the original as soon as I tell it
to write my changes.

Since kmail now opens the original (and unlinks it), and waits for the external
process to exit, it ends up reading the original file without my saved changes.

This behaviour is new since KDE 4.something.

I have an older system I use at work:

    $ rpm -q kdepim
    kdepim-3.5.9-6.fc7

This version does not have the bug.  Apparently, the older version uses the
name (not the inode) to obtain the updated buffer after the external program
exits.

There is no work-around that seems possible here.

The bug exists in:

    $ rpm -q kdepim
    kdepim-4.2.1-3.fc10.i386

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