On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Charles Y. Choi wrote:
IMHO, much of what makes the ZMI difficult to use is due to limitations of the textarea widget in a web browser (no syntax highlighting, no indentation support, etc.)
So what if there was a way to get JavaScript to take the contents of a textarea widget, save that to a temporary file and then call a local editor of the user's choice to edit that file. Upon exit of the local editor, the contents of the file are then put back in the textarea widget. How would the use model work? Hook into the right mouse button menu over the textarea widget an entry called "Edit Contents with Local Editor".
check out http://www.mijnkopthee.nl/pivot/screenshots.html but call me stupid.... isn't emacs an easier solution ?