Rob Nikander wrote:

Hi all,

I am new to Zope and would like to edit my DTML and Python using emacs. I have figured out how to FTP the document to the Zope server (this is documented in several places: you visit file /user@host#port/...), but what I can't figure out is how to create different "types" of files and objects. For example, if I create a "page template" or "dtml method" in the Zope web interface, and then edit and save the file in emacs (through FTP) it changes the file to a DTML Document. Basically everything I touch with Emacs/FTP becomes a DTML document. The "Zope Book" online talks about FTPing to the url of your template + "/source.html", but that has not worked -- I get FTP errors that the template file is not a directory. Any pointers?

Emacs turns everything into an DTML Document because Emacs by default recreates a file when saving, renaming the original file to be a backup. You can change this behaviour by setting some EFS-related variable ('efs-make-backups'?) Btw. I can very much recommend using Emacs with gnuserv/gnuclient and the External Editor addon, you should really try it! - peter.