No, no. As my last girlfriend said to me, "It's not you, it's me." EE fires off the editing on the same machine as my browsing, which is not where my primary emacs runs. I'm essentially using windows as an X terminal, with the additional task of running my browsers. If I ran my browser under unix, it would be pretty handy. The emacs I have installed on Windows is just for experimentation. If there was a way to make the helper app or gnuclient load up the buffer under my Unix Xemacs from my Windows browser, that would be pretty sweet (I do seem to remember someone did this with gnuclient once but it's been a long time since I saw that). And it would be so complicated that I can't imagine it working as reliably as FTP. Beyond that, having dired available on Zope is pretty sweet. There are times when I want to edit three or four files in a row. Emacs pops back to the dired buffer when I'm done editing the file, making it easy to edit the next one. Doing that with ZMI and EE would involve several mouse clicks, scrolls, http transfers, and hand movements that I can avoid with emacs. EE is a really great product. But us Emacs users get pretty stuck in our ways.* * Author does not speak for all Emacs users.
-----Original Message----- From: Casey Duncan [mailto:casey@zope.com] Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 12:00 PM To: Charlie Reiman; Thomas B. Passin; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] [Re] External Editor 0.5 Problem win98 Zope
On Friday 23 August 2002 02:10 pm, Charlie Reiman wrote: [snip]
For my money, the ftp access via xemacs is much easier to use than the ExternalEditor. I'm impressed by EE and it's cool, but it just doesn't work well for me.
Anything I can do to improve it for you or is it more of a paradigm thing?
-Casey