Re: editor_command and file not modified message

* Christian Ebert is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> * 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.
> > 
[snip]
> > 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:

Nice pickup.  Thanks.

> 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.

Excellent ideas - thanks again!

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