Hi Chris, thanks for answering my beginner questions. On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 06:19:02PM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
There are a few initiatives in process which aim to "pretty up" the text entry interface, ZIE being one (http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ZIE - works only with IE 5). I'd heard of others (VisualZope?) but haven't tried any.
Hmm ZIE is not an option. A general method for this would be nice.
Zope's portability does come with a price. I understand that. But loosing the modular toolbox of general computer systems is not really nice.
Zope runs on just about every widely-used UNIX variant, as well as NT. Its management interface has been designed to work with most every browser (it uses JavaScript at most very, very sparingly). The web interface is the *only* real management interface to Zope at the moment.
True. I am wondering a bit: Zope is such a special and big application, it would most certainly benefit from a real Zope client. (like written in Python/tcl or wxPython you would get all of the target platforms.)
Syntax highlighting: To my knowledge, there are no WYSIWYG editors that understand DTML tags, although there are of course many that understand HTML. I guess the syntax rules will be easy to add. And I will be content with a normal highlighting editor, it need not to be WYSIWYG, because that doesn't work on the web anyway.
Your other issues are pretty well-addressed by the software itself: Version control: Click on the Undo tab. Find: Click on the Find tab. No, they're not CVS or UNIX 'find', but Zope is not UNIX. And not NT for that matter ether.
Did you ever look into Hyper-G, now called Hyper-Wave? It had a nice attempt on a hypertext authoring system. Zope needs to be an hypertext authoring system to a certain extend. I am still missing bidirectional links in the world wide web, I guess. ;-> Bernhard -- Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA. (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard) Free Software Projects and Consulting (intevation.net) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org)