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Can't Add External Editor to Toolbar |
le 30/07/2017 @ 10:05
par apwhewett
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Death of my laptop forced me to move to a new computer and configure Thunderbird with all of my add-ons, including one of my favorites, External Editor. I installed the beta version for TB 52, as required to get the preferences to work, but when I went to add External Editor to my toolbar from the Customize menu, there was no External Editor among the choices. I thought this might be due to the fact that I was moving to a Linux OS from a Windoows 10 environment, but when I attempted the same setup procedure on my wife's W-10 laptop, there was also no External Editor choice on the Customize menu. Unless I am missing something, is there a way to get the External Editor choice onto my toolbar?
Pardon me - stupidity here. My problem is NOT that the external editor isn't showing on the toolbar. Naturally it only shows on the toolbar when you are writing a message. Duh! But I am having a problem in the Linux environment. If I set the editor to gedit, things work properly. If I set it to gvim, they do not. When I watch /tmp, I see that with gedit, a temporary file shows up and that is the file I'm editing. With gvim I see a swap file show up, but no normal temporary file and gvim complains the file is no longer available. If I make changes and then do a write, thus creating the file in /tmp, Thunderbird doesn't see the changes and they don't show up in my message and the temporary file remains on /tmp instead of disappearing.
P.S. When I attempted to add this message using Chrome, I could not type in the composition box. I had to go to Firefox to be able to compose this message.
Rectified by apwhewett 31/07/2017 @ 12:36
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le 02/08/2017 @ 00:03
par apwhewett
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I finally worked out a solution (thank goodness). It seems that gnome.terminal has some kind of negative interaction with vim and Thunderbird. When I went from gvim to "xterm -e vim" the problem went away. gvim points to vim.gnome and when I tried "gnome-terminal -e vim" I also had the problem. With xterm, there were no problems. Once I could edit message content with vim, I was much happier. |
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