[Zope] [Re] External Editor 0.5 Problem win98 Zope

[Charlie Reiman]

No, no. As my last girlfriend said to me, "It's not you, it's me." EE fires
off the editing on the same machine as my browsing, which is not where my
primary emacs runs. I'm essentially using windows as an X terminal, with the
additional task of running my browsers. If I ran my browser under unix, it
would be pretty handy. The emacs I have installed on Windows is just for
experimentation.

If there was a way to make the helper app or gnuclient load up the buffer
under my Unix Xemacs from my Windows browser, that would be pretty sweet (I
do seem to remember someone did this with gnuclient once but it's been a
long time since I saw that). And it would be so complicated that I can't
imagine it working as reliably as FTP.

Beyond that, having dired available on Zope is pretty sweet. There are times
when I want to edit three or four files in a row. Emacs pops back to the
dired buffer when I'm done editing the file, making it easy to edit the next
one. Doing that with ZMI and EE would involve several mouse clicks, scrolls,
http transfers, and hand movements that I can avoid with emacs.

EE is a really great product. But us Emacs users get pretty stuck in our
ways.*

* Author does not speak for all Emacs users.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Casey Duncan [mailto:casey@zope.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 12:00 PM
> To: Charlie Reiman; Thomas B. Passin; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] [Re] External Editor 0.5 Problem win98 Zope
>
>
> On Friday 23 August 2002 02:10 pm, Charlie Reiman wrote:
> [snip]
> > For my money, the ftp access via xemacs is much easier to use than the
> > ExternalEditor. I'm impressed by EE and it's cool, but it just
> doesn't work
> > well for me.
>
> Anything I can do to improve it for you or is it more of a paradigm thing?
>
> -Casey
>