Re: Thunderbird: definable external editor

On 1/6/2010 10:19 AM, Jeff wrote:
> It would be lovely to be able to define an external text editor for
> Thunderbird, and even better if the user is given access to all headers
> in the editor, as was done in the old console-mode newsreaders and mail
> user agents of yore (tin, trn, yarn, elm, pine-- among others). To
> understand why this would be useful, please note the line-wrap problems
> in my immediately preceding post, 'Automatic offline mode', which came
> of my attempt to reflow the last paragraph. Thanks,

I just realised that this might not be quite clear. I would like to use 
an external editor rather than Thunderbird's built-in, for composing 
messages. It would also be lovely if the user could edit, in the 
external editor, the headers that will appear in the outgoing message.

Jeff