But here my question: I do not want to use a HTML textarea to edit my code. I prefer to use emacs. How do you use external editors with Zope? Do you import files all the time? Or do you copy and paste? Both of these solutions are not desirable, since I check my code every few minutes. I would spend more time uploading to the system.
couple of options here (hmm, these should be pulled out of the email archive and turned into a HOWTO - no, don't look at me :) (note that I talk zero credit (or blame) for any of the following ideas)
* Zope allows you to ftp in and upload DTML and images and the like. emacs allows you to edit files on a remote ftp filesystem, using EFS (?) (someone who uses this please give me a sample of emacs syntax?) You could also use any other form of ftp browser/text browser that allows you to transparently edit remote files via ftp - I'd be suprised if KDE or GNOME didn't have this.
Oh, now I know what you mean. I forgot that zope opens an FTP client at 8021 by default. :) (I am still new to the product.)
* Zope has Webdav support - does emacs? IE5 does (well, if you read the zope-checkins list and see Brian's commit messages, IE5 sorta has webdav support)
* Netscape's HTML textarea widget has some limited number of emacs keybindings. This is what I use, because I hate the full emacs with a passion. If mozilla allowed me to embed nvi (the OneTrueVi) into a html textarea widget, I'd be a happy bunny :)
* You could write something that let you edit text files, and batch uploaded (either via ftp, or via the Zope Client interface) the files.
Thanks for the ideas. Zope is on the same machine I develop on. So if I could find the directory the files reside, I could save them directly there. The problem: I could not find the files. Do the method, objects and documents reside in a DB or the file system? stephan -- Stephan Richter iXL - Software Designer and Engineer