Hi, I'm wondering. Is everybody using the Zope interface for writing the web-pages? I find it really difficult, unhandy to use that edit-box. So, as I read in the manuals, I can use the Composer of NetScape. I tried that, but when I publish a page to Zope and then want to view the page, zope 'hangs'. I mean, netscape keeps browsing to this page (i.e. netscape icon, let's us now it's searching) but never shows it. Also, if I browse with the manage panel to this page, the same problem is there. But, if stop and restart zope, the page is indeed published to Zope.... Anybody a solution? Or which editor does everybody uses for making there pages? Kind Regards, Tom.
Tom Deprez wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering. Is everybody using the Zope interface for writing the web-pages? I find it really difficult, unhandy to use that edit-box.
Anybody a solution? Or which editor does everybody uses for making there pages?
I've been using the upload/download tabs, and vim (with HTML syntax color highlighting) In fact, I tend to keep an extra couple of browser windows open, one on the 'upload' page for the DHTML method I'm working on, one on the URL for that method, and one in the 'manage' interface of the folder the method is in. That way, I edit, save, hit the 'upload' button (then hit back instead of o.k.), then reload my test view. The only thing I have to be careful of is sometimes I'll make a quick fix in the edit box, so I have to be sure to download the file again before editing extensively externally. I know the folks at DC are spending their effort solving this problem with webDAV (which will get us other great things, as well). I've been thinking that it would be nice for a user to be able to set a preference somewhere to define an editor to spawn when you hit the edit button, but that violates the 'through the web' feature. Oh, I just had a thought - how about having a dhtml-source mime-type, so I can set my browser to handle that type with an external editor - hmm, I could even make it a script, so after editing, it uses the ZClient interface to push the updated version back to the server... Hmm, perhaps I need to go code spelunking ;-) -- Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer Computer and Information Technology Institute Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005
I think you might be on to something here! Keep us posted. I have been using my Mac for most of my editing (Although, now that I have KDE loaded on my Linux box, I find I am doing a lot more on it). For most editing I cut and paste from the edit window into BBedit (a very nice text editor for Mac) then paste it back. I have the same problem with those quick changes, though, I often do them in the edit window and then have to remember to cut and paste them back into BBedit if I need to make more extensive changes. Phil A
I've been thinking that it would be nice for a user to be able to set a preference somewhere to define an editor to spawn when you hit the edit button, but that violates the 'through the web' feature. Oh, I just had a thought - how about having a dhtml-source mime-type, so I can set my browser to handle that type with an external editor - hmm, I could even make it a script, so after editing, it uses the ZClient interface to push the updated version back to the server... Hmm, perhaps I need to go code spelunking ;-)
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