[arachne] Re: ARACHNE MAIL BOX / ALTERNATE EDITOR PROBLEM

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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:13:05 -0400, Brian C. Murphy wrote:

Brian,

> Then the problem arises.  I have saved my just composed email message,
> but insight does not give me back the email screen so I can save the
> just composed message to insight and send it.  Instead, it gives me a
> totally unfilled out email addressing screen that no longer contains the
> address information I previously filled out AND WHICH ALSO DOES NOT
> CONTAIN THE EMAIL MESSAGE I JUST COMPOSED WITH VDE.

Part of this is an old bug -- the part about loosing the address etc.
fields when you come back from an external editor. However, your 
text most certainly should be loaded into the text area. I use 
external editors all the time and that's never a problem. So 
something is very busted. I'd recomend temporarily REMing the
lines in arachne.bat that delete $roura$.bat, then try editing an
email, and then quit and take a look at the $roura$.bat that would have
been created as your external editor was used, it should give an idea
what's wrong. My core creates a file called 'external.log' which 
records all such external events, and it's useful for debugging this
sort of thing.



Regards,

Ray Andrews

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