[Users] Oddity: Recent upgrade to claws leaves my external editor with a blank page

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 15:43:36 -0500, Steven Lembark wrote:

> Problem for me is that the tmpmsg is invariably empty. I'll run it
> interactively and tee the output, see if there are any nastygrams.
> Other than that, the next step is strace, I guess, which is going to
> get ugly with all of the X11 calls mixed in.
>
> The built-in editor gets content, it's the external editor that
> ends up with empty input (guessing the built-in editor is accessing
> the tmpfile?) so the only thing I can think of is a botched setting
> somewhere that is leaving the message body empty.

When you put "cp %s /tmp/foo" as the external editor, I assume you
get the message body in /tmp/foo.