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[Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn.bjerkem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 February 2013 19:51, Steve Chadsey <schadsey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running zim 0.59 on Ubuntu 12.04.1.  Starting with the 0.57
> release, the editor that is selected for Tools->Edit Source is not the
> one I want.  Prior to 0.57, there was an "Applications" tab in the
> preferences dialog, in which I could specify my preferred text editor.
>  That is gone now.  Looking at the documentation, I see there is a
> reference to a "Configure Applications" dialog, but I don't see that
> option in any of the menus.

Isn't that the "Custom tools" in the "Tools" menu? But you can't set
the default editor there.

>
> How do I specify the editor I want to be launched with Tools->Edit
> Source?  I'm using XFCE if that makes any difference.
>
I'm Using LXDE on Debian/Sid.

check
.config/zim/preferences.conf:

[GtkInterface]
text_editor=xdg-open

xdg-open is controlled by various mime types in
.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

-- 
Svenn