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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: emacs-everywhere
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2022 18:48:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9167906-7083-bedc-554a-aa942c1fe156@cs.umass.edu> (raw)


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
going in more recent Thunderbirds.  However, the recommended emacsclient
command fails saying it can't find xdotool - which apparently is not available
under Cygwin.

So ... am I out of luck on this?  Or can the technology be hooked up somehow?
Or maybe somebody here know an esy (not many keystrokes / mouse actions) way
to get stuff from Thunderbird, edit, and get it back into TBird?

This is why I am still on Thunderbird 68.12 (!).

Regards - Eliot Moss

             reply	other threads:[~2022-03-06 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-06 23:48 Eliot Moss [this message]
2022-03-07  2:00 ` emacs-everywhere Russell VT
2022-03-07  3:33   ` emacs-everywhere Eliot Moss
2022-03-08  9:49     ` emacs-everywhere Russell VT
2022-03-08 13:55       ` emacs-everywhere Eliot Moss
2022-03-08 15:36         ` emacs-everywhere Henry S. Thompson

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