[Users] Some questions from a possible new user

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:39:33 +0000
Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> How do you actually implement the external editor?  I can see the
> menu option to use the external editor and there's a configuration
> option to open the external editor automatically but I can't for the
> life of me find where one actually specifies the external editor.

Configuration-> Preferences-> Message View-> External Programs-> Text Editor

Enter the command to be executed, e.g.

emacsclient '%s'

where %s is the name of the file to be edited.

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