[Zope] Re: External editor for ZMI

[Chris McDonough]

> I've been following this discussion with some interest as I have never 
> been able to get ExternalEditor to work for me. Now, that said, I have 
> it confiured enough that it will present me with an editor and a file 
> (WinWord) by clicking on the pencil. But I am confused on two points:
> 1.) When Word opens a document it presents me with text without any 
> formatting. Also gives me metadata, URL, cookie info etc. Is this how it 
> is supposed to work?

No... sounds like there may be a mismatch between the version of
external editor on your server and the version on your client.  At least
that's all I can think of.

> 2.) When I save the work, I don't know where is goes or how to get it 
> back to my plone site.

It's supposed to save on top of whatever document you clicked on.