elm can't find vi

[Rob Bernardo]

engelsma at cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Engelsma Jonathan) wrote:
>
>I recently got elm (2.3) running under Microport Unix SysV/AT (2.4).
>Most of the time it works just fine.  However sometimes when I send
>mail I get the error message "Can't invoke editor '/usr/bin/vi' for
>composition".   Has anybody else experienced a problem like this?
>Any suggestions?  It seems strange that sometimes I can send mail
>with no problems, and other times this error occurs.

You have one of those brain-damaged vi's that exits with non-zero when
no real error has occurred. Remedy: write a shell wrapper around vi that
always exits with 0 and use that as you editor in elm.

I understand this problem will be remedied in the next version of elm;
it will ignore the exit value of the invoked editor and only pronounce
failure if the exec fails.
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