Eliot Moss writes:
> ...
> It does occur to me, however, that if I am willing to run
> Thunderbird from WSL, this all might work more or less out of the
> box. But the stumbling block at present is the lack of xdotool that
> can be invoked by emacsclient to start an emacs-ev
present is not available in later Thunderbirds. Presently
I use an External Editor add-on. If I type control-E it fires up a (Windows)
emacs and I can edit there, save and exit, and the edited email is back in
Thunderbird. But Thunderbird totally changed their add-on technology a few
years ago an
On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 7:33 PM Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 3/6/2022 9:00 PM, Russell VT wrote:
> > Are you running Thunderbird under Cygwin (ie. in an "X" environment?),
> or are you running it
> > directly from Windows?
>
> Thanks for responding, Russell. Directly under Windows.
>
Ok, that means it
On 3/6/2022 9:00 PM, Russell VT wrote:
Eliot -
Are you running Thunderbird under Cygwin (ie. in an "X" environment?), or are you running it
directly from Windows?
Thanks for responding, Russell. Directly under Windows.
Can it run under Cygwin? I am running Cygwin/X with
emacs, xterm, okular
> exit emacs, and the edited mail would be there in Thunderbird.
>
> I have seen recommendations to use emacs-everywhere to get something like
> this
> going in more recent Thunderbirds. However, the recommended emacsclient
> command fails saying it can't find xdotool - which
Dear Cygwiners - I use Thunderbird as my email tool, and in older versions I
could arrange to invoke emacs as an external editor, edit my mail, save and
exit emacs, and the edited mail would be there in Thunderbird.
I have seen recommendations to use emacs-everywhere to get something like this
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