Bug 127817

Summary: External Editor should be opened on a per mail basis
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Tassilo Horn <tassilo>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: wishlist CC: bjoern, luigi.toscano, roman.cheplyaka, tassilo, tonyp
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.9.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Tassilo Horn 2006-05-22 13:25:21 UTC 
Version:           1.9.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc-4.1.0 
OS:                Linux

I use kmail with emacs (or better, emacsclient) as external editor. This works ok for me, but I don't need the power of emacs' message-mode for all messages I write, only for about 20% of them.

So it would be great if kmail would allow to setup an external editor, which could then be opened on a per mail basis via an option in the composer menu or maybe a toolbar botton.

I think this would be a solution (or at least an approvement) to Bug #25755, too.
Comment 1 Anthony Parent 2006-05-23 03:01:19 UTC 
First, make it configureable, "Always use external editor" or "Use external editor only when told" or something like that

Secondly, make sure that there is a hot key or short-cut key for starting the external editor. (Make that configurable as well.) That way if someone is in "Only when told" mode and they are editing a message they thought would be quick, and later decide to use the external editor, they just hit a hot key and the editor starts up. (With the already edited message.) Don't force the use of a menu. (Although that should be there as well.)

That's my vote.
Comment 2 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-13 01:19:07 UTC 
Instead of an extra configuration option this feature can be implemented by simply adding a keyboard shortcut for calling the external editor.
Comment 3 Tassilo Horn 2010-03-19 08:15:28 UTC 
I agree with Björn.  A keyboard shortcut plus a toolbar button I can add to the composer window would be most appropriate.

I wonder if this ever going to be confirmed...
Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:45:37 UTC 
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 5 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:34:41 UTC 
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.