Subject: external editor command problem

From: Doc Gorby <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 04:11:59 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

I use vim (4.3.3) as the external editor for Pine.  I recently
changed the command string to start the editor and now get a
message "too many arguments..."

The original command was
/usr/bin/gvim -geom 80x30+150+100 -U xxx -u xxx

I added -sw 25 and started getting the "too many
arguments" message.

How can I solve this?

I tried creating a shell script and shorting the name
from /usr/bin/gvim to gvim.

Shortening the name did not resolve the problem and
having a script did not work at all.

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From: daniel lance herrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:37:21 -0500 (EST)

You can move the geometry resource to your
~/.Xdefaults file. That will make it apply every
time you run vim, not only when you run it from
within pine, and it will take two tokens off your
command line.

On this Solaris system, toward the bottom of 
"man X" there is a section headed "RESOURCES" that
gives the general information about what I'm
talking about, if you don't already know.

dan