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Bug 714723 - External Editors
External Editors
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: composer
unspecified
Other All
: Low normal
: ---
Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
: 737121 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 714883
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-10 10:02 UTC by Geary Maintainers
Modified: 2018-10-28 22:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Charles Lindsay 2013-11-21 23:11:25 UTC


---- 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?

####

#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

####

#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.

####

#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.
   Dropping resolution 

Comment 1 Federico Bruni 2014-08-31 21:02:02 UTC
this has been requested also on google+ recently:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Luk%C3%A1%C5%A1Zapletal/posts/En9E1QD6Pta
Comment 2 Jim Nelson 2014-09-23 19:36:42 UTC
*** Bug 737121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Federico Bruni 2014-09-23 21:57:35 UTC
Mmmmh,  I missed this.
Bugzilla is not working fine, this search does not return any result:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3A%22geary%22+markdown
Comment 4 Jim Nelson 2014-10-09 00:35:00 UTC
I don't find quick search to be useful enough for regular use.  I recommend using the "Search" link at the top of the page, although that does mean you have to find the project to search against.  (If you pop down the list and start typing the name, you'll jump right to it.)
Comment 5 Federico Bruni 2018-01-10 11:40:55 UTC
Markdown support is ticketed as bug 739464

The user mentioned on Google+ link above would like to write email in Vim (well, why doesn't he use vi and mutt then, you might ask). But other may want to use other editors for some good reason.

For example, I can imagine that such a feature would help to keep Geary simple and leave advanced editing features to an external editor. One of these might be the use of the editor snippets to enter text frequently used in your emails.
Comment 6 Michael Gratton 2018-01-10 13:32:05 UTC
If supported, this would definitely need to be handled by a plugin, so marking as depending on Bug 714883.
Comment 7 Michael Gratton 2018-10-28 22:26:08 UTC
I just wrote up a tracking bug for the plugin system over at gitlab that collects all of the requirements for feature requests that should be implemented as plugins in the one place, so closing this bug in favour of that ticket: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/155