Re[2]: Vim with Thunderbird

> Alan G Isaac wrote: 
>> Are any of you using gVim with Thunderbird? 
>> If so, how?  I've followed the usual weblinks, 
>> but asking for ``nofork`` seems not to get me 
>> there. 



On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Michael Henry apparently wrote: 
> I'm using the Thunderbird "External Editor" plugin[1] along with a 
> modified script taken from macvim.org[2].  I changed one line of the 
> "gvim" shell script[3] they provide at macvim.org and saved it as 
> ~/bin/gvimwait (script included below).  Then I just configure the 
> External Editor plugin to use ~/bin/gvimwait. 

> [1]: http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2 
> [2]: http://wiki.macvim.org/wiki/Downloads/ExtraFiles 
> [3]: http://macvim.org/OSX/files/gvim 


Thanks!  I'll try this immediately.
But is seems oddly complex compared to doing this on other OSs.
Why is that?

Thank you,
Alan Isaac