[Users] Mail-editing in claws mail w/ external editor: remove dual-editing window

Dave Howorth dave at howorth.org.uk
Mon Sep 5 15:39:50 UTC 2022


On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 16:42:29 +0200
Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Sep 2022 12:32:49 +0200, Carlo Federico Pauletti
> <carlofedep at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > This works as intended, and I am editing this
> > mail in NVIM at this very moment. There is only one little thing
> > that nonetheless annoys me: whenever I spawn a "compose" window
> > (either when replying to a mail, or when writing a new one), there
> > is a "claws-mail" compose window that gets spawned beside the
> > terminal running NVIM.  
> 
> I don't know whether gvim supports a window id on the command line,
> but if so could this be an alternative? Edit with gvim **inside** the
> claws window? 

I don't believe gvim does it natively, but you could use a separate
program to reparent its window inside the claws one if you were so
inclined.

> -- Johan
> 
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