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   Message 867 of 3,070   
   August Abolins to Martin Foster   
   testing APoint   
   20 Apr 19 23:17:04   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.59 5cbba870   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   REPLY: 2:250/1.1 5cbb838a   
   PID: APoint 1.25   
   lo Martin!   
   On 4/20/2019, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:   
      
   AA>> .. Apoint won't launch the external editor (plain ol'    
   AA>> notepad.exe in my case) either. I tried adding the usual %1 arg,    
   AA>> but that didn't make any difference.   
      
   MF> Just found time to have another look at this and it turned out that   
   MF> I didn't understand how it's supposed to work :-/   
      
   MF> In the message reader, click the "Reply(to sender)" button, which   
   MF> loads the message into the internal editor. Then, click "Edit" in   
   MF> the menubar and then click "Open in external editor" and .....   
   MF> Bingo! :-)    
      
   YES.  This is working now.  I had to remove the old %1 arg from "notepad.exe   
   %1" to just to "notepad.exe", and voila!  ..er, in this case.. hurra!   
      
   I don't think I would have noticed the extra step to select "E)dit" and then   
   "Open with exT)ernal" in the original reply window.   
      
   Calling an editor within the original editor is a bit weird.   
      
   Did you notice that while you are busy in the external editor, there is yet   
   another window underneath:   
      
    - Diese Nachricht wird im externen Editor bearbeitet.   
    - Startbefehl: "H:\Apoint\notepad.exe H:\Apoint\APoint1.msg"   
      
   Your persistence paid off!    Thank you.   
      
   ../|ug   
      
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