Hi, i don't know if its a bug but i didn't find any Info about it. its not possible to open an external editor (automatic or manually) The Option/Checkbox "use system defaults if possible" (in "external programs") is greyed out and if i use notepad '%s' oder gvim -f '%s' as texteditor neither one opens when i compose a message oder navigate to "edit with external editor" I tried to find an older Version to test ist but didn't find anything. The same problem on several Machines i tried (even changed the values directly in the xml-file but no luck) thx in advance vb
not version 3.11 but version 3.10.1 - windows
I can confirm that this is still a problem in 3.14.0. I'm not sure what the expected behavior or use case is, but from what I can see, nothing happens. Also, once you select a different option from the drop-down, "notepad %s" is never added in the list. Makes sense to be a default value on the Windows build.
And I can confirm that both problems Jason Beck mentions are still present in 3.15.0.
Created attachment 2183 [details] Portable external editor spawning Use g_spawn_async() instead of fork()/exec() for starting the external editor, so it works on Windows as well. Patch is based on git-rev:3.17.8-25-g67de7a4db
pushed to git. thanks