Re: [Evolution] composing with alternate editors, like xemacs

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Not currently.  Someone did a vim editor at one point but i dont know if
it is still maintained or how well it worked.

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:59 -0400, W Randolph Franklin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to use other editors, like emacs or xemacs, to compose
> mail in evolution?   My customized emacs environment is much more
> powerful than the builtin evolution editor.  E.g, it has many abbrevs.
> Also, defining a abbrev, or setting an option, in emacs makes it
> available in all my composition environments, like writing code or
> reports.  Finally, emacs has some unique and powerful tools, like
> dynamic expansion.
> 
> I did a web search before writing this and found a comment that the
> evolution developers use emacs to develop evolution.   Also, there were
> several messages about a patch to incorporate vim, which was submitted
> over a year ago but never incorporated.
> 
> Composing in emacs and then cutting and pasting into evolution would be
> possible, but quite clumsy.
> 
> Thanks.