Re: editor_command and file not modified message

* Troy Piggins <[email protected]> [2007-04-25 03:03]:
> 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.

sounds way too complicated.  ;-)

> 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.

that's because the changes were made before vim gets to do any itself.
so no changes are made - and no message gets sent.

> Any ideas?

it is so easy to add a text
at the end of the current buffer
as well as adding the signature:

" add "file" to end of current buffer:
  map ,a :$r file<cr>

" add "sig" to end of current buffer:
  map ,s :$r ~/.signature<cr>

" both add the text and the signature:
  map <f3> ,a,s

besides, vim config like setting the 
textwidth should be done in the vimrc:

  au BufNewFile,BufRead  tw=65

and vim shuld already know about the files
of slrn and "set ft=mail" automatically:

  :view $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim
  /slrn

  " Mail (for Elm, trn, mutt, rn, slrn)
  au BufNewFile,BufRead snd.\d\+,.letter,.letter.\d\+,.followup,.article,.article.\d\+,pico.\d\+,mutt{ng,}-*-\w\+,mutt\w\{6\},ae\d\+.txt,/tmp/SLRN[0-9A-Z.]\+,*.eml setf mail

can you afford to type F3 before saving with "ZZ"?

i dont think it is a good idea to automize all of it.

because then you could bind it to the return key
and you might not see a message going out at all.

it is good to keep these things on a level where
the user send off a message with some thinking.

Sven

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