Hi all,

I'm trying to use VIM as my external editor for KMail, and pretty much every page on the internet (and the KMail documentation) says: "No problem - just enter 'vim -f' in the external editor option under "Composer-General" of the KMail settings. However, there is no such option on my KMail settings. Am I doing something wrong? My KMail version is 5.5.1 (installed via Manjaro repos).



Does anyone know if there is hope for some vim goodness for me?

Thanks,
Tobi

"use external editor" option is on the plugins page of KMails settings dialog in Composer Plugins

Do I need to install an external package for that? There are no real plugins showing for me either - this is the screenshot:

tobiask wrote:Do I need to install an external package for that?

In master build from sources you do not need to install external package for that.
I have no clue about distro packages wrt this issue.

Thanks! I have not been able to find a suitable plugin in the Arch repos - does any fellow Arch user know which package contains this?

I don't think it's in a released tarball yet: probably Applications 17.08 at the earliest.

tobiask wrote:Thanks! I have not been able to find a suitable plugin in the Arch repos - does any fellow Arch user know which package contains this?

Fellow Archlinux user here, the external editor is at Settings → Configure KMail → (tab) Modules → (module name) "Open external composer".

I'm curious though how did it get there — I seem to recall it being somewhere in settings last time I used KMail.

EDIT: note — it requires to restart KMail to start working.

Hi-Angel wrote:

tobiask wrote:Thanks! I have not been able to find a suitable plugin in the Arch repos - does any fellow Arch user know which package contains this?

Fellow Archlinux user here, the external editor is at Settings → Configure KMail → (tab) Modules → (module name) "Open external composer".

I'm curious though how did it get there — I seem to recall it being somewhere in settings last time I used KMail.

EDIT: note — it requires to restart KMail to start working.

Never mind — it doesn't work, KMail just sent an empty mail to a mailing list because of this. I reported a bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388015

*sigh* every time I'm trying to migrate to KMail, somethings hindering me.