I tried Mark S.' suggestion of changing $:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/text to 'show' but it made no difference to the behaviour of the content field and external editor.
David. On Thursday, 3 January 2019 15:30:26 UTC+9:30, Mark S. wrote: > > 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/ee74ed78-e0d1-4d13-bed6-86709ac6697b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

