241583 - Alternate editor for email composition

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 13474

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Ava Jarvis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

There isn't a MozEx for Thunderbird, and no extension I can find that allows an
alternate editor when composing email (plus MozEx has problems of its own....).

Is this not as simple as putting the message box text in a temporary file,
calling the editor command on that file and waiting for it to finish, and then
reloading the text from that file?  Can an extension do this sort of thing?  My
impression is that this is beyond the capability of extensions, to be able to
grab text from a text box, but please correct me (I must be wrong here :)).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 259633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

> Can an extension do this sort of thing?

See bug 270621.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 5

[Douglas Bagnall]

Well, I would still like this fixed, but I don't seem have permission to reopen
it.  

If noone else reopens it I might have to file a duplicate.

Comment 6

[David F. Skoll]

The External Editor extension at http://globs.org/download.php?lng=en works well
for me.

Comment 7

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 72539 -> Core bug 13474.

Comment 8

[Joseph Reagle]

BTW: The external editor extension no longer works with the most recent TB. https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor/issues/74