mdv@comtst.UUCP (Mike Verstegen) (07/17/90)
As a very new elm user (compiled it yesterday), I've experienced a problem with using vi in the composition mode during sending mail. elm invokes the editor in editmsg.c with a system call and then looks at the return value from the system call for a zero exit status. Unfortunately, vi exits with the number of "errors" encountered during the editing session (such as searching for a non-existent pattern). elm then sees the non-zero exit status and aborts. Being a new user, I don't want to blame the code, but it seems that vi is fairly popular and I recall hearing that the non-zero exit value of vi is fairly well known. Am I missing something here, or should I just hack the module and forget about it? Specifics: elm 2.3 PL0 on AT&T 3B2/600 vi: /usr/bin/vi.sl 1.26 3.1 10/13/86 62466 AT&T-SF System: Unix V.3.1.1 on 3B2/600 Thanks in advance, Mike Verstegen uunet!comtst!mdv
dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) (07/18/90)
In article <138@comtst.UUCP> mdv@comtst.UUCP (Mike Verstegen) writes: >As a very new elm user (compiled it yesterday), I've experienced a problem >with using vi in the composition mode during sending mail. > >elm invokes the editor in editmsg.c with a system call and then looks at the >return value from the system call for a zero exit status. Unfortunately, vi >exits with the number of "errors" encountered during the editing session >(such as searching for a non-existent pattern). elm then sees the non-zero >exit status and aborts. > ... stuff deleted ... >Mike Verstegen >uunet!comtst!mdv I too ran into the same problem on my SGI 3.2 system running the same version of elm (Elm 2.3 PL0, of May 1, 1990). I ended up defining the symbol WEXITSTATUS() in config.h to make it work correctly. My definition was: #define WEXITSTATUS(x) ((x) & 0xFF) and that made it work just fine. Perhaps the configuration script should ask about using WEXITSTATUS? -- ##################################################################### # CompuServe: >INTERNET:uunet.UU.NET!ki!dwatts Dan Watts # # UUCP : ...!uunet!ki!dwatts Ki Research, Inc. # ############### New Dimensions In Network Connectivity ##############