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regarding 1:45.4.0-1 broke the External Editor plugin
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Package: icedove
Version: 1:45.4.0-1
The External Editor plugin (from http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2)
was working in icedove up until this upgrade, stopped working immediately
after.
Everything looks OK until you select "Edit in External Editor" from the Tools
menu, and then nothing happens - no gvim as expected.
craig
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craig sanders <[email protected]>
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Hi,
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 07:40:44AM +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:42:31AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > Everything looks OK until you select "Edit in External Editor" from the
> > Tools menu, and then nothing happens - no gvim as expected.
>
> did you check if this issue also happen with the official version?
Nope, I didn't. I use the debian version, icedove. I don't use the official
Mozilla Thunderbird, and have no interest in doing so.
But i did some more checking when i got home tonight.
It turns out that External Editor worked for one of my accounts, but not for
my gmail account (which is the main reason I use icedove - i use mutt for
almost everything else, but Ń–cedove for gmail and work accounts).
Further investigation revealed that the problem was caused by my setting
compose to HTML for gmail rather than plain text.
So this turns out to be a bug in External Editor - there's no good reason why
it should refuse to use edit HTML messages (there are numerous editors which
support HTML, and even gvim can edit HTML with nice syntax-highlighting).
(and i expect that if i do something radical like RTFM for E.E., this will
probably be documented)
I've never noticed the problem before because I've never turned on HTML
composition before (I set it to send both text/plain and text/html attachments
to see if that would stop icedove from doing weird things like word-wrapping
long copy-pasted <pre> lines)
A false alarm, so i'll close this bug. sorry to waste your time.
craig
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craig sanders <[email protected]>
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