[ALUG] Email editing with TB - you can use any editor!

[James Freer]

2009/2/21 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 08:15:35PM +0000, James Freer wrote:
>> Recently i had wanted to use a text editor to speed up answering
>> emails and considered Mutt and Emacs. I had used Thunderbird for
>> sometime and liked the app but editing emails takes too long. Setting
>> up Mutt was ok but still involved quite a bit of work.
>>
>> Yesterday i came across a Thunderbird addon Muttador (still beta stage
>> - vi editor) and today came across a non-mozilla TB addon called
>> Exteditor... just what i've wanted and didn't think it existed!
>> http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2
>>
>> Some v.kind person has developed an external editor addon instead of
>> the TB editor. It allows emacs, vi, joe, gedit or whatever to compose
>> emails.
>>
>> Should be of interest to anyone who wants to increase their
>> productivity and say goodbye to the mouse while editing emails.
>>
> It sounds a bit like Mozex (for Firefox) but for Thunderbird, what a
> useful add-on.
>
> --
> Chris Green

muttador = muttator sorry my typo
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search?q=mutt&cat=1%2C50

james