[MlMt] External Editor To Compose Messages?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 19 Mar 2014, at 0:21, Steve Lianoglou wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Billy Youdelman <billy at mix.com> 
> wrote:
>> Greetings -
>>
>> I'm curious if anyone besides me would be interested in a MailMate 
>> option to
>> use an external text editor for composing messages?  After about 40 
>> years of
>> using DEC's keypad controlled text editor, and having recently taken 
>> the VMS
>> cluster down, this is something I now really wish I still had 
>> available.  I
>> do have a very decent emulation of it (jed) running on OS X, and it's 
>> easy
>> to call, at least from non-GUI programs.  But, MailMate is far 
>> superior to
>> mutt, et al., so I thought I'd see if there's enough demand to make 
>> it worth
>> implementing.  As well, Text Wrangler/BB Edit are wonderful editors 
>> for
>> those who prefer GUI tools, and there is no shortage of other good 
>> character
>> cell and GUI text editors.
>
> These are already available. If I'm not mistaken, there are bundles
> that allow you to edit/compose a message in Aquamacs, TextMate and
> SublimeText and you can take these as inspiration for creating a
> bundle for the editor of your choice.
>
> The mailing list has more info about these. The most recent thread
> about this topic starts here:
> http://lists.freron.com/mailmate/2014-March/002186.html
>
> If you search the list, you should find some more.

I actually wanted to try use these but haven't figure out how ;/

Anyone got a quick info on when to actually run the command ?

I know i can do it *on* the actual already open mail message but that 
leaves me with a 'dead' window ;/

/max
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