[Zope] Re: External editor for ZMI

[Chris McDonough]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 21:14 +0200, Josef Meile wrote:
> > Do you mean this?
> > 
> > http://plope.com/software/ExternalEditor
> > 
> > Are there any screen shots of it in action?
> > 
> > I'm not exactly sure how it works, but have feeling it won't work for me.
> Yes, that's what Paul meant. I tried it once and it is not difficult to
> install. You just have to follow the *README* and configure it to start
> the editor you want according to the file type. You can edit word and
> excel files, bitmaps, python scripts, dtml, zpt, and much more. Off
> course you need to have the editor programs installed on the client
> machine.
> 
> There were some bugs with excel and word, but I read in the link you
> posted that they are likely solved (or I hope so :-)).

Yep.  Lots of Excel and Word plugin fixes.  One particularly egregious
bug that was fixed: if a user exited Word/Excel without saving first and
got the nag dialog that asked him if he wants to save the file, the file
wouldn't be saved and no error would be presented.  Another
Excel-specific bug was fixed inasmuch as EE would sporadically throw an
error if a user was "camping" on an input cell due to COM async
weirdness.

- C