Version: (using KDE 4.4.3) Installed from: openSUSE RPMs I had selected emacs as an external editor in the kmail composer settings. Then I started editing a mail, wanted to turn the external editor off to do some things using kmails own editor. So inside the composer windows I selected Settings -> Configure KMail -> Composer and turned the external editor off and clicked Ok. But I still had Emacs coming up when hitting the first key. This setting was only active when leaving the composer end editing the mail again or editing a new mail. When I remember it correctly then this worked on older versions of kmail. But that might have been the 3.5 versions already.
Change severity it's minor .
It's normal because otherwise we can overwrite text I will close it as wontfix