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How I got to this? By asking Google "Thunderbird edit reply in external editor", then I've followed the bread crumbs: => <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu
by ciprian_craciun 5y ago
How I got to this? By asking Google "Thunderbird edit reply in external editor", then I've followed the bread crumbs:
=> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259633 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259633> (18 years old), duplicate of,
=> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241583 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241583> (18 years old), duplicate of,
=> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13474 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13474> (23 years old), bug still open...
BTW, I used to use `It's all text`, the Firefox addon that allowed one to edit text-areas in external editors, but it broke a few years ago... (Coincidentally or not, that was the time I've also dropped using MoinMoin and other wikis... Also coincidence or not, that was the time I've started using Chromium more...)
The other recommended addon is `exteditor`, but it seems that, just like `It's all text`, it also doesn't work in latest Thunderbird: <https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor/issues/74 https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor/issues/74>...
Is it that hard to ask, in 2022 when we have so many good text editors, to be able to use one instead of the built-in ones?
Perhaps nobody wants this feature? Searching the Mozilla Bugzilla instance shows another story...
- ciprian_craciun 5y agoApparently the following project seems to work: <https://github.com/muk-git/tb-my-editor https://github.com/muk-git/tb-my-editor> (However it is no near as polished as `exteditor` seems to have been...)