Re: [Evolution] Message size threshold for download?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 10:46 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 23:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 2) Despite the above, there have been calls for Evo to allow "composer
> > hooks", so an Emacs fan for example can use Emacs and a Vi fan can use
> > Vi. There's been some movement on this but I couldn't say if it's likely
> > to be available soon. Presumably one could specify OOo Writer in such a
> > future version, and suffer the consequences.
>
> We have had an "external editor" plugin for some time now, though it
> only works for plain text messages and needs some usability love.  Visit
> Edit -> Plugins -> External Editor -> Configuration.  You can tell it to
> automatically launch a text editor every time you compose a message, or
> you can launch it manually from the File menu of the Compose Message
> window.
>
> When you close your preferred editor, the Compose Message window is
> populated with the message content from the editor.

Good to know, but it's definitely not present in my copy of Evo. I'm
using the standard Fedora 12 install, currently
evolution-2.28.3-1.fc12.x86_64. Perhaps this is an optional extra
(though I don't see it on the standard repos), or the Fedora packagers
need to be told about it.

poc