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

Question

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":

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

opens the file fine. When I write the file via the vim command :w the change isn't propagated to the original google doc in the cloud. Also, when I :wq, I get this command line output:

Server responded with: 412, <errors xmlns='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'><error><domain>GData</domain><code>etagsMismatch</code><internalReason>Mismatch: etags = ["tags"], version = [gqpwmaue]</internalReason></error></errors>
Moved edited document to /home/james/test.txt

How can I automatically update the original doc when I save it in vim?

Answer 1

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.