Re: [Evolution] External editor

[Ian Goldberg <ian cypherpunks ca>]

On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 00:36, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 16:46, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > How can I invoke an external editor on a message in the compose window?
> > I want to clean up quoted stuff before forwarding and it's much easier
> > to do that with a more powerful editor like Emacs.
>
> Unless the editor is available with the right bonobo API, I don't think
> you can do this.  Copy and paste works, until there's a "standard" for
> the editor API, so that it's easier to make more editors work with it. 
> I thought I heard some talk about designing that API, but I'm not sure
> where it got off to.

Isn't there such a standard?  What does gnome-vim use?

http://www.opensky.ca/gnome-vim/

What would be really nice is if Evolution had a way to select from a
list of available components with the right API.

   - Ian