---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-04-10 15:02:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 6796
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/6796
Searchable id: yorba-bug-6796
Original author: Christopher Small
Original description:

This might be best for a plugin, but it would be fantastic if Geary supported
external editors. This would be a boon for folks who can't stand typing in
anything that isn't a powerful text editor (Vim/Emacs). This used to be
possible using ItsAllText or Vimperator together with the online Gmail client,
but as they move towards their new compose functionality, this won't be
possible any longer. Support for this would be amazing.

Related issues:
related to geary - Feature #5125: sendmail-like mode for geary or geary-mailer (Open)



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-11-14 17:17:00 -0800 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Charles Lindsay 7 months ago

  * **Priority** changed from _Normal_ to _Low_
  * **Target version** set to _0.5.0_

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure that's something we'd really want to add in
Geary proper -- though as you suggest, it might work in a plugin. Alternately,
would something like #5125 scratch the same itch, where you can type your
email in whatever editor you want, and just pipe it to Geary to send?

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#2

Updated by Christopher Small 7 months ago

Yeah, that would be somewhat helpful, but ultimately I think a plugin specific
to this goal would be ideal for me. For instance, it's nice to be able to load
up all of the existing state of the conversation into the editor so that it's
easier to read the previous messages as you compose. It would take all the
mess of having to specify addresses, replies, forwards, and so on (you know,
all the stuff that the GUI is really NICE for).

I definitely understand that folks like me are edge cases, so I can definitely
see plugin over built in feature. But we are out there :-)

Thanks

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#3

Updated by Eric Gregory 7 months ago

We did have someone on Reddit asking for Markdown support. That could be
delegated to a plugin as well.

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#4

Updated by Christopher Small 7 months ago

Yes! That would be fantastic! I'm betting the ilk of folk interested in
writing in Markdown might also be interested in an external editor; maybe a
single plugin serving both of these functionalities would make sense. At the
very least, it would be good if they played nicely together.

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#5

Updated by Jim Nelson 7 days ago

  * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.5.0_</strike>)



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 23:11 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 6796 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6796

Unknown version " in product geary. 
   Setting version to "!unspecified".
Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. 
   Setting to default milestone for this product, "---".
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Resolution set on an open status.
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