Perhaps someone can assist?

[ArchieLinux]

Greetings! Would love to use my nvim editor for composing/editing emails within Thunderbird (alternative would be to move to neomutt), but can't quite get this add-on to work after installation and selecting "nvim" + "konsole" options.

Here are the errors I'm getting

.... essentially telling me that there's no such external-editor-revised extension... yet it's certainly been installed, and external editor menu choices are offered within Thunderbird.

Any ideas as to what I must be missing? Am excited to start using external editing possibilities!

[FernandoBasso]

Did you follow the extra steps mentioned in the wiki?

[ArchieLinux]

It's been a while ... but I thought I did before I gave up trying.
I'll make time to have another go at it to see if I can get it working this time. Thanks!

[ArchieLinux]

Okay, tried again - a lot of additional activity but error messages: upon opening Thunderbird: "Messaging host disconnect"and upon efforts to utilize the external editor button: "Failed to talk to messaging host"

To clarify: I'm running Arch (EndeavourOS) and followed the wiki instructions again, specifically the link for Arch Linux.

I installed rust and built the package successfully without errors reported, which created 'external-editor-revived 0.6.0-1' - which I then loaded as an add-on file within Thunderbird.

For other installations (e.g., Ubuntu) there are additional instructions for using different packages. I'm assuming since I'm not using Ubuntu that these don't apply - is this correct?

Thanks for any guidance you might provide.

[FernandoBasso]

On 2/15/23 17:54, ArchieLinux wrote: Okay, tried again - a lot of additional activity but error messages: upon opening Thunderbird: "Messaging host disconnect"and upon efforts to utilize the external editor button: "Failed to talk to messaging host"

I am using Arch Linux and downloaded the “Ubuntu” release package, and ran the `external-editor-revived` program, which generated some output which is supposed to be added to this file (on Linux at least): "$HOME/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/external_editor_revived.json" Did you do these things?

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To clarify: I'm running Arch (EndeavourOS) and followed the wiki instructions again, specifically the link for Arch Linux. I installed |rust| and built the package successfully without errors reported, which created 'external-editor-revived 0.6.0-1' - which I then loaded as an add-on file within Thunderbird. For other installations (e.g., Ubuntu) there are additional instructions for using different packages. I'm assuming since I'm not using Ubuntu that these don't apply - is this correct? Thanks for any guidance you might provide. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#74 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABSBW3D6DT5G3TZASS5PIO3WXU67FANCNFSM6AAAAAASULADZY>. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[ArchieLinux]

@FernandoBasso Thank you kindly for your reply! ...

Yes, after downloading and building, I placed a copy of [email protected] into my .mozilla/extensions folder and a copy of external_editor_revived.json into my .mozilla/native-messaging-hosts folder.

Quit Thunderbird, logged out, returned to receive same two error messages, which are as follows:

ExtEditorR messaging host disconnected when first restarting Thunderbird
ExtEditorR failed to talk to messaging host when I try to use the extension to edit a message.

Still stumped 🤔