I suspect that it is the iframe that is used to contain the text field that is blocking the action.
You can try an experiment. Open tiddler $:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/text and change the text to "show". Now the text field will appear down with the other fields (only a bigger box). From that text field box try launching your external editor. Good luck! -- Mark On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 8:46:35 PM UTC-8, David Nebauer wrote: > > The web browser I'm using with TW, qutebrowser > <https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser> has a mechanism for opening > an external editor when filling in forms fields. When creating a new > tiddler this mechanism works with every editable field *except* for the > content field, which is obviously the field for which an external editor > would be most useful: > > > [image: new-tiddler] > <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1834722/50620388-82513c00-0f46-11e9-81fb-f9f6dd47699a.png> > > In order to troubleshoot this at the browser end I need to understand what > is different about the content field in comparison with the other fields. > > > If it helps, the mode of failure is that the external editor (gvim) > launches, I enter the content in the editor, and close the editor -- at > this point for all other fields the editor content appears in the browser > form field, but in the case of the content field it remains empty. > > I tried to view the page source but, of course, that showed me the entire > wiki. I don't have sufficient knowledge of TW to wade through that. > > > [I've reported this as a TW github issue > <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/3676>, but it since > occurred to me it might be better discussed here.] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/bb4615cc-8266-4116-ac27-f2637dbcc186%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
