Editing Help:Text editor support (section)

=====Using Vim or another console editor=====
Some macros may work in [[Vim_(text_editor)#Interface|Vim]], but not in [[Vim_(text_editor)#Interface|gVim]] for some reason (e.g., the macro to format text paragraphs). Or you just want to use Vim within an X terminal as you used to do, instead of using gVim. To invoke Vim within an X terminal window, you can write a shell script (see below) to invoke an X terminal and to run the <code>vim</code> command within that X terminal, or generally your preferred editor. Assume that the filename of this script is <code>wiki.edit.vim</code>, and that you put the script in the directory <code>/home_dir/bin/</code> so that the path of the script would be
<code>/home_dir/bin/wiki.edit.vim</code>
Put the above path in the Preferences box (instead of <code>/usr/bin/gvim</code>) of It's All Text. It should work. Note that <code>/home_dir/</code> is the complete path to your home directory from the root (<code>/</code>) directory; don't use <code>~/</code> (tilde) instead of <code>/home_dir/</code>; it won't work.
The listing of the script <code>wiki.edit.vim</code> is given below:
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
#!/bin/sh

exec xterm -e ${VISUAL:=vim} "$@"
</syntaxhighlight>
Don't forget to make the file executable with <code>$ chmod +x wiki.edit.vim</code>