[Zope] External Editor

[Paul Browning]

--On 06 March 2003 12:52 -0800 sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:

> ExternalEditor has problems with editors that detach from their parent
> process. I think the only way around this is to have an editor-specific
> plugin to deal with this.  I think there is one for Word, but not for
> notepad.

Really? I would dearly love to solve the "Word can only open one
file at a time with External Editor" limitation. I searched on
Google but to no avail.

If anyone can provide a pointer I'd be most grateful.

Paul

> Try MSWord or gvim instead, or consider figuring out how to
> make a plugin work for the editor of your choice.  I haven't done this,
> but I think there is info you can either google for or search list
> archives.
>
> Good Luck,
> Sean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Long [mailto:mlong@datalong.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:20 PM
> To: Tim; Michael Long; Zope
> Subject: Re: [Zope] External Editor
>
>
> Thanks for the reply. I am baffled because I have the same setup. If I
> use notepad.exe instead of gvim.exe I also get the same message. It must
> be a configuration issue specific to my machine. Does anyone else have
> any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>> Michael wrote on Thursday, March 6, 2003, 1:18:44 PM:
>> > Does anyone have any hints on how to "configure the editor"?
>>
>> I'm using ExternalEditor with gvim on XP Pro, as you are. I did no
>> special configuration (that I can recall) beyond the simple:
>>
>> editor = h:\vim\gvim.exe
>>
>> in the ZopeEdit.ini
>>
>> Works great. I don't experience any "connection lost" problems. So
>> this message is not much help, except to say i don't think that
>> snippet you quoted from the ZopeEditor site applies here.
>>
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