Re: Thunderbird: definable external editor

On 6 Jan, 19:27, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

I certainly support your idea. Even after having got used to the in-
built editor I find it rudimentary. Although not often but I would
from time to time like the possibility to make the mail a bit special,
perhaps not like the IncrediMail, but something along their image
embedding features. It is possible to it with Thunderbird but it
demands a good portion of knowledge whereas it is a fairly easy task
in both MS Word and Oo Writer.
Gorm