[Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

[Casey Duncan]

What you are likely to see in Zope3 at least is the ability to synch 
objects to and from the filesystem. This would allow you to edit 
content/code (code-tent?) on the filesystem using your choice of tools 
and then check it back into the ZODB.

Another reason for this is a vision of having all application code (even 
restricted python) reside in the ZODB so that it can be distrbuted via ZEO.

Much work is to be done on this, but I think in the end, we may be able 
to have our cake and eat it too...

-Casey


Romain Slootmaekers wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Charles Y. Choi wrote:
> 
> 
>>IMHO, much of what makes the ZMI difficult to use is due to limitations 
>>of the
>>textarea widget in a web browser (no syntax highlighting, no indentation 
>>support,
>>etc.)  
>>
>>So what if there was a way to get JavaScript to take the contents of a 
>>textarea
>>widget, save that to a temporary file and then call a local editor of 
>>the user's
>>choice to edit that file.  Upon exit of the local editor, the contents 
>>of the file
>>are then put back in the textarea widget.  How would the use model work?
>>Hook into the right mouse button menu over the textarea widget an entry
>>called "Edit Contents with Local Editor".
>>
> 
> check out http://www.mijnkopthee.nl/pivot/screenshots.html
> 
> but call me stupid.... isn't emacs an easier solution ?
> 
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