all I ever needed was emacs and grep but you will be surprised of how many students I see who, if you say "open a shell" they say "open what?".
On Jan 5, 1:31 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > Here is my confusion.... > > If your going to use an editor on your local computer.... why are you > going to even bother with using web2py to view the files... If your > already going to have Explorer/Nautilus/<insert file browser here> you > can just double click the files and edit them... > > There would be no way for you to use an external editor to edit files > that are located on a server (unless your using ssh in a fuseFS)... > > In any case, I just don't see any logical reason to use the web2py > admin as a filebrowser... nautilus/explorer does an excellent job of > this already. > > Of course, you could create a mimetype... but that would require users > to "open link with application", and then that application would need > to know how to interpret said mimetype. > > I guess the problem is... I don't see the "reason" for this... > > -Thadeus > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:40 PM, <s...@pobox.com> wrote: > > pretty much what It's All Text does for you. When active, it > > presents a little (edit) button at the edge of the current <textarea> > > widget. Click it and it fires up the editor you've configured. That can be > > as plain (think "xterm ed") or fancy (think vim, X/Emacs or other editor > > with all the syntax highlighting they brin > >
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