On 8/27/10 9:08 AM, Beverly Howard wrote: > >> How do I set SeaMonkey Composer to be the > "Edit With" answer for .HTM files under windows XP? << > > A related question; > > it used to be possible to set an external text editor to directly edit > the html source, but that has been removed. > > Is there any way to set that in the current incarnation of composer? If > not, anyone know of a kludge to launch a text editor based on the > current file and location being edited. > > (While the current source editor is "usable" it is really a pain after > using an advanced text editor with options such as syntax highlighting.) > > Thanks in advance, > Beverly Howard
You can use the method I indicated earlier in this thread. However, every time I install a new version of SeaMonkey, that gets changed. So I instead developed a registry fragment that I merge into my Windows registry so that I can use Wordpad as my editor. This is contained in a file named editHTML.reg. The complete file is as follows: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\MozillaHTML\shell\edit\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Windows NT\\Accessories\\wordpad.exe\" \"%1\"" After updating SeaMonkey, I select the file (single-click) and right-click to get a pull-down context menu. From the menu I select Merge. (For safety, I previously changed the default -- Merge -- on .reg files so that a double-click opens the files for editing rather than merging.) -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
