ExternalEditor has problems with editors that detach from their parent process. I think the only way around this is to have an editor-specific plugin to deal with this. I think there is one for Word, but not for notepad. Try MSWord or gvim instead, or consider figuring out how to make a plugin work for the editor of your choice. I haven't done this, but I think there is info you can either google for or search list archives. Good Luck, Sean -----Original Message----- From: Michael Long [mailto:mlong@datalong.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:20 PM To: Tim; Michael Long; Zope Subject: Re: [Zope] External Editor Thanks for the reply. I am baffled because I have the same setup. If I use notepad.exe instead of gvim.exe I also get the same message. It must be a configuration issue specific to my machine. Does anyone else have any ideas? Cheers, Mike
Michael wrote on Thursday, March 6, 2003, 1:18:44 PM:
Does anyone have any hints on how to "configure the editor"?
I'm using ExternalEditor with gvim on XP Pro, as you are. I did no special configuration (that I can recall) beyond the simple:
editor = h:\vim\gvim.exe
in the ZopeEdit.ini
Works great. I don't experience any "connection lost" problems. So this message is not much help, except to say i don't think that snippet you quoted from the ZopeEditor site applies here.
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