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Originally Posted by galax
Greets,
Often times using the external editor come useful to fix some things, big HOWEVER, the external editor is vastly crippled the way it's implemented.
In order to find a work around I was trying to look for Sigil's epubs temp files in order to edit them directly and hope for Sigil to refresh the changes, but these temp files are nowhere to be found in Linux!
Sigil is great for previewing is there a way to resort editing the epub externally and have Sigil refresh the contents upon saving?
Wwowowo! I just tried external editor with latest Sigil and it goes haywire, arrows navigation writing random strings all over the text delayed character printing having to hit multiple times to work, etc.
Test 2: I found the 'Temp' files settings, so I set it manually then opened Section0001.xhtml, edited and wrote the changes, saddly the changes DO NOT appear in Sigil. Not even after closing text tab and reopening. This leads me to think that those temp files are fake temp files.
How is it possible that changing the file externaly AND closing Sigil's tab with same file won't show the changes after reopening the tab??
Anyways if anybody finds some workaround to this I would appreciate.
Thanks in advanced.
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Don't edit sigil's temp files directly. It's a recipe for disaster. As to a workaround: the obvious one is to find out why Sigil's external editor feature goes "haywire" for you. That's not normal. And no... they are not "fake temp files". They are just not meant to be casually diddled while Sigil has them open.