Re: editor_command and file not modified message

* Troy Piggins on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 09:21:39 +1000:
> I'm playing with a macro that with one key press follows up an
> article with a predefined message.  Basically I thought of changing
> the editor_command temporarily to a "cat file >> %s" type command,
> call followup, and change editor back to vim.
> 
> Here's what I have:
> 
> #v+
> define auto_message(){
>
>  set_string_variable ("editor_command", "cat auto_message.txt >> '%s'");
>  set_string_variable ("signature","");
> 
>  set_input_chars ("yy");
>  set_prefix_argument(1);
>  call ("followup");
> 
>  set_string_variable ("editor_command", "vim '+set ft=mail' '+set
> tw=65' '+%d' '%s'");
>  set_string_variable
> ("signature","/home/troy/.signature/usenet.signature");
> 
> }
> 
> definekey ("auto_message", "\e8", "article");
> #v-
> 
> Trouble is that when I hit the key on a message, just the "file not
> modified" error comes up and no followup is sent.  I've checked the
> .followup and it is indeed getting the correct text inserted, so the
> editor_command seems to be working.
> 
> Any ideas?

Do you have
set abort_unmodified_edits 1
in your slrnrc, by any chance? Then you'd have to set this
temporarily to 0:

variable
  abort_unmodified_edits = get_variable_value ("abort_unmodified_edits");
set_integer_variable ("abort_unmodified_edits", 0);
% do stuff
set_integer_variable ("abort_unmodified_edits", abort_unmodified_edits);

You could do the same with your editor_command and signature
variable, so you don't have to change your script when you decide
a configure change.

c
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