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How can I edit a google doc with vi and automatically update the original doc in the cloud when I write the file?

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I'm using ubuntu 11.04. I have installed googlecl which claims to allow me to edit google doc files with vim. I have a google doc "test": opens the file fine. When I write the file via the vim command the change isn't propagated to the original google doc in the cloud. Also, when I , I get this com…

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google docs edit --title "test" --editor vim

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I am not sure if you solved the problem, but I was encountering the same error on my machine. This was happening because I didn't have the latest python-gdata package. GoogleCL package alone won't do the job.

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