Seeing all the traffic on the Zope mailing-list in reference to WYSIWYG editors brought me to wonder a few things (please excuse me if these are redundant questions, but I haven't found any info on them..). * I hear it's possible to edit Zope objects (DTML, etc.) from within Emacs. Is this possible? And if so, is there any way to configure syntax highlighting and do formatting? This honestly would be the only editing tool I need. Is there info on this anywhere? * If it is possible to use Emacs, then what about other text editors? The TEXT form on the browser management screen just isn't what I need when I'm on the server machine. How about using something like the GtkEditor widget wrapped either in PyGTK or WxWindows/Python, where you can have a slim text IDE that can edit, format, and highlight Zope objects, HTML, XML, and python code. Something like Homesite, without all the fluff :-). * Any other ideas, suggestions? I'm building a Zope-based project (called CIS), and would like to eventually integrate some development/administration tools along with the system, that are easy to use yet remain flexible. Issues like these are top on the list of getting other developers to help, so I'd like to find out some options. Thanks in advance. Eron
Eron wrote:
Seeing all the traffic on the Zope mailing-list in reference to WYSIWYG editors brought me to wonder a few things (please excuse me if these are redundant questions, but I haven't found any info on them..).
* I hear it's possible to edit Zope objects (DTML, etc.) from within Emacs. Is this possible? And if so, is there any way to configure syntax highlighting and do formatting? This honestly would be the only editing tool I need. Is there info on this anywhere?
If you run ZServer with the FTP option, in Emacs you can use ange-ftp: C - x C - f /username@server port:/path/to/object The literal space ' ' is inserted by hitting C - q <space bar> (C - x C - f is Emacs notation for Control-X Control-F, if you didn't know). With Xemacs: C - x C - f /username@server#port:/path/to/object
* If it is possible to use Emacs, then what about other text editors? The TEXT form on the browser management screen just isn't what I need when I'm on the server machine. How about using something like the GtkEditor widget wrapped either in PyGTK or WxWindows/Python, where you can have a slim text IDE that can edit, format, and highlight Zope objects, HTML, XML, and python code. Something like Homesite, without all the fluff :-).
I heard a rumor someone was working with wxPython and XML-RPC to make a Zope client... -Michel
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Michel Pelletier wrote: :Eron wrote: :> :> * I hear it's possible to edit Zope objects (DTML, etc.) from :> within Emacs. Is this possible? And if so, is there any way to :> configure syntax highlighting and do formatting? This honestly :> would be the only editing tool I need. Is there info on this :> anywhere? : :If you run ZServer with the FTP option, in Emacs you can use ange-ftp: : :C - x C - f :/username@server port:/path/to/object : :The literal space ' ' is inserted by hitting C - q <space bar> : :(C - x C - f is Emacs notation for Control-X Control-F, if you didn't :know). : :With Xemacs: : :C - x C - f :/username@server#port:/path/to/object with xemacs i also find it useful to prevent efs from making backup copies (zopes undo features are better anyway) so dtml methods dont become dtml documents (the default for newly created objects it seems). thats done by setting the variable efs-make-backup-files to nil. put this into your .xemacs-custom file: (setq efs-make-backup-files nil) (this turns backups off for all files edited via ftp!) i think it should be similar with gnu emacs. peter. -- _________________________________________________ peter sabaini, mailto: sabaini@niil.at -------------------------------------------------
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