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

[Thorsten Maerz]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 16:39:50 +0100
Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Try

gvim -f --socketid %w '%s'

That example was given on
https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2355

-- 
Best regards,
Thorsten