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by Joe Fineman :: Rate this Message:

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conkeror-request@..., in the person of Nicholas A. Zigarovich,
writes:

> The spawn helper needs to be ported to Windows for this (scil.
> edit-current-field-in-external-editor under Windows XP) to happen.
> Someone was recently working on this but didn't have much luck.
> Also, I think they depended on cygwin.

Well, so do I.  %^)

> The next major release of xulrunner will add features to the process
> API which will allow us to eliminate the spawn helper, making
> edit-current-field-in-external-editor work on all platforms.

> I suggest waiting it out as porting the spawn helper at this time
> would be a waste of effort.

Thank you for your advice & the good news.
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