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Bug 677745 - Document using external editors in composer
Document using external editors in composer
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: User Documentation
3.14.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
: 3.16
Assigned To: evolution-user-docs
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-06-09 02:48 UTC by André Klapper
Modified: 2015-03-10 20:44 UTC
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Description André Klapper 2012-06-09 02:48:46 UTC 
Available by default from 3.5.2 on according to https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2012-June/msg00047.html

Link this new page called "mail-composer-external-editor" into
    <link type="guide" xref="index#mail-composing-advanced" />
Comment 1 André Klapper 2013-07-19 13:01:54 UTC 
In Evolution 3.8.3, trying with gedit (which does not make sense), and having gedit already running (which just creates a new tab), saving and closing that gedit tab does not update the content in the composer body. It seems like this requires quitting the gedit application to trigger the update. Specific workaround for this editor would be setting "Edit > Plugins > External Editor > Configuration > Command" to 
   gedit --new-window
instead.
"Automatically launch" does not even seem to work without having a gedit instance running already.