[Zope] Editing DTML Methods with Emacs ?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de
> [mailto:flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 9:28 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Editing DTML Methods with Emacs ?
> 
> 
> I remember this problem was raised here once, but I don't 
> know if there's
> a solution now: I'd like to use something else than 
> Netscape's text widget
> to edit my Zope site. XEmacs would be preferred. Ftp access 
> to the site
> does work with the /superuser@host#8021:/ syntax. The problem 
> is that if
> I edit and save a DTML method with XEmacs, the method turns 
> into a DTML
> document, breaking the logic of the site.
> 
> I think I understood the underlying problem (ftp just can't 
> express the
> differences between the objects), but I don't remember if 
> there was any
> workaround.
> 

The problem is XEmacs.  It first deletes the file and saves a backup
'~', and then an original.  Because it deletes the origninal object
instead of overwriting it, Zope assumes that the *new* file is to be a
document.  I bet a gazzillion dollars that there is some lisp variable
somewhere in EFS to disable this behavior.

-Michel

> So what do people use to prototype Zope sites ? Are you all stuck with
> the Zope web management interface ?
> 
> 	Gregor
> 
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