From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: reply to a posted newsgroup message, and choose "Start external editor" from the Tools menu. Whether or not the message content is selected, it fails to appear in the external editor's window and must be manually copy/pasted there. This works fine with Gedit, but gvim does not seem to open the message content in the editing window Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open Knode Preferences and choose gvim as your external editor 2.open a newsgroup in knode, and select a message to reply to 3.in the reply window, choose "start external Editor" 4.bang head on keyboard when message content fails to appear in the gvim window 5. change external editor to gedit in knode preferences 6. repeat steps 2-3 7. message content appears in gedit window 8. grind teeth Actual Results: message content fails to appear in external gvim editor window Expected Results: message content appears in external gvim editor window and is editable. Additional info: I would have filed this against the 'knode' package rather than 'kdebase' but one does not currently exist in bugzilla's package listing. I've filed a bug against that as well. *sigh*
It seems that gvim does remove all messages from the file.
I think this is because of the reason described in bug 88169
This is the expected behaviour of gvim. Workaround to disable forking is described in bug #88169