Hi all, External Editor won't work with OpenOffice because OpenOffice detaches immediately (or terminates after notifying the running instance to open the file). I've hacked together a solution for this problem. It should be applicable to all detaching programs that cannot be forced to run in the foreground. It requires a working 'lsof' on your system (i.e. Linux, but I understand lsof is available for several unices) More info: http://vanderwijk.info/python/ExternalEditor Cheers Ivo -- Drs. I.R. van der Wijk -=- Brouwersgracht 132 Amaze Internet Services V.O.F. 1013 HA Amsterdam, NL -=- T +31-20-4688336 F +31-20-4688337 Linux/Web/Zope/SQL/MMBase W http://www.amaze.nl E info@amaze.nl Network Solutions W http://vanderwijk.info E ivo@amaze.nl Consultancy PGP http://vanderwijk.info/pgp -=-