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KevinH · 09-25-2023, 03:39 PM

It does. Did you read my response? Use Sigil's Open With feature to allow an external editor to handle the editing.

Why on earth are you trying to run Sigil in the background? It is a gui app. It is not a command line tool.

Launch Sigil normally. Set your editing program of choice for a specific file type with Open With ... menu in Sigil.

Once set you can right click on any text file in Sigil's BookBrowser and select OpenWith to launch it with your specified editor. Sigil will set the proper File Watcher to know when to absorb the changes.

All of this is explained in the Sigil User Guide.

09-25-2023, 03:39 PM	#5
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,844 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	It does. Did you read my response? Use Sigil's Open With feature to allow an external editor to handle the editing. Why on earth are you trying to run Sigil in the background? It is a gui app. It is not a command line tool. Launch Sigil normally. Set your editing program of choice for a specific file type with Open With ... menu in Sigil. Once set you can right click on any text file in Sigil's BookBrowser and select OpenWith to launch it with your specified editor. Sigil will set the proper File Watcher to know when to absorb the changes. All of this is explained in the Sigil User Guide. Last edited by KevinH; 09-25-2023 at 03:43 PM.