[Lazarus] external tools

[Benito van der Zander]

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> I guess Mattias means, that he has assigned a shortcut to Tools ->
> Make resourcestring and that he presses that.
Thanks, I seem to have overlooked it.
The funny thing is, it crashed Lazarus when I clicked on it for the 
first time.
   
> When you setup external tools, you can set a keyboard shortcut to
> launch that tool. I do the same for my external tools.
Yes, but than it still isn't called for every unit.
>
> Please note the bug in External Tools. The Parameters and  Working
> Directory information is never stored. So you can't pass information
> like $EdPath() to the external tool.  :-( 
At least $EdFile() worked in r16947.

Benito