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Frederick888 / external-editor-revived

External Editor Revived is a Thunderbird MailExtension which allows editing emails in programs such as Vim, Neovim, Emacs, etc.
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Shortcuts with tbkeys #141

Open agenbite opened 11 months ago

agenbite commented 11 months ago

I'd love to set my keybindings with the tbkeys extension, which allows to bind keys to run arbitrary code, but I don't know how to call external-editor-revived's commands from code. Has anyone been here before me?

Frederick888 commented 11 months ago

I guess it requires EER to listen on runtime.onMessageExternal, so that you can runtime.sendMessage from tbkeys.

It's a very interesting feature, but also calls for some careful design and plenty of testing. It'll need a bit more traction to motivate me to do this. (Thumbs up on OP if anyone else also wants this.)

By the way, may I know why you wanted to use tbkeys instead of TB's built-in way? Is it that tbkeys allows single-key bindings, or simply the matter of centralised management?

agenbite commented 11 months ago

Thanks for your reply (and for EER)!!

By the way, may I know why you wanted to use tbkeys instead of TB's built-in way? Is it that tbkeys allows single-key bindings, or simply the matter of centralised management?

Yeah, I'd like to hit 'r' over a message and get my favorite editor to open directly with a reply template. For that, I'd need to know the code that EER uses to launch the editor (and that this code works in that context).