Vim as external editor for thunderbird

Greetings from a rainy Northern Italy!

After a new installation of my Linux box (xubuntu 16.10) I noticed that in the current version of thunderbird I cannot use (g)vim as external editor, nor was an appropriate plugin listed in the thunderbird pages ( _Muttator_ does not call vim, it should simulate vim). I found some plugins, but is it possible to call the editor from within thunderbird? It used to be possible in the recent past.

thanks as usual!
guido

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