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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
He can keep all of his other external "Open With" editor settings the way they are. No need to change them. Removing the one configured opf editor (leaving the rest intact) and configuring the external editor to be PageEdit would leave him in the exact same position he is now (without needing to make sure BookBrowser has focus before using the external editor shortcut).
There is no advantage/difference to launching PageEdit from the opf using "Open With" over launching the external editor configured to be PageEdit. In fact, there's a couple of quantifiable downsides to the former. It's just a different driveway to the exact same house.
Like I said: if it's a "that's just what I'm used to" thing. I get it. Nothing to explain. But there's no logical justification (or practical for that matter) for continuing to use PageEdit via the Open With feature. Not for the reasons he says he's using PageEdit for anyway.
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I never argued that 'my way' is better, I presented it as an alternative way of get to the same destination.
If the Book browser isn't shown (for me, it's rarely hidden) then a shortcut (for me, Ctrl+Shift+B) will show it and give it focus.
I'd like to know what the 'quantifiable downsides' are for using Open with for all invocations of external programs on all file types?
There's a Preference setting labelled "Set your preferred external
xhtml editor:" — that suggests to me that the feature was never intended to be used on
opf files. The corresponding shortcut is labelled "Launch External
Xhtml Editor", but I can't see an equivalent in the menu bar drop downs.
Besides which, it doesn't work for me… and I'm pretty sure it never has, just tried again:
When I press F9 with an xhtml file in Codeview nothing happens, i.e. Notepad++ doesn't open. If I select Notepad++ in Open With on the same xhtml file in the Book browser, et voila it opens.
While we're on the topic of Book Browser Open With, there's no way to remove a single program, one can remove all for a type and then re-add the programs you want to keep, or delve into sigil_6.ini and edit it.
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