Subj : testing APoint
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Sun Apr 21 2019 13:19:00

Hello August!

On 20.04.19 at 23:17, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 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! :-)

 AA> YES.  This is working now.  I had to remove the old %1 arg from
 AA> "notepad.exe %1" to just to "notepad.exe", and voila!  ..er, in
 AA> this case.. hurra!

Yippeeeeee!

 AA> I don't think I would have noticed the extra step to select "E)dit" and
 AA> then "Open with exT)ernal" in the original reply window.

 AA> Calling an editor within the original editor is a bit weird.

Yeah, wouldn't have expected it to be there.

 AA> Did you notice that while you are busy in the external editor, there is
 AA> yet another window underneath:

 AA>  - Diese Nachricht wird im externen Editor bearbeitet.
 AA>  - Startbefehl: "H:\Apoint\notepad.exe H:\Apoint\APoint1.msg"

Nope, I hadn't noticed that, thanks for the heads-up.

 AA> Your persistence paid off!    Thank you.

Welcome :)

Regards,
Martin

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