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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