[Zope] editing

[Ross J. Reedstrom]

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