External editor problem (win)

"Jerzy Wrobel" <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Jun 2016 10:33:11 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.ipe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you Otfried! In the meantime I have discovered
another issue with the external editor under win.
When

prefs.editor_closes_dialog = true

is selected, no text but rather an empty text box shows up.
Regards,
Jerzy

> Indeed, there's a bug.  You can fix it yourself, in the file
> "tools.lua", the first function (externalEditor) contains the line:
>
> fname = prefs.editable_textfile()
>
> Remove the parentheses at the end so that it reads like this:
>
> fname = prefs.editable_textfile
>
> I'll fix it in the next release.
>
> Cheers,
>  Otfried