Re: [Pan-users] Feature request: automatic editor launch

[Charles Kerr]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:05:26AM -0400, Benjamin Esham wrote:
> I have noticed that since I changed pan's external editor to vim and
> rigged up some useful formatting tricks, the first thing I do when 
> posting
> an article is to click the External Editor button.  Might it be possible
> to have an option that will automatically launch the external editor 
> upon
> the opening of a new article edit window?
> 
> (Another related feature that I probably wouldn't use, but someone else
> might, is an option to automatically "Send Now" or "Send Later"
> upon the external editor's exiting.)
> 
> Thanks to everyone involved in development -- pan is the best newsreader
> on any platform :-)

This is currently languishing in bluesky:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90594