Seriously, has anyone looked at the suggested "Its All Text" yet?
You configure a path to your editor of choice (for me its vim). It injects a little icon into the bottom right corner of any textarea on a webpage. When you click it, it launches your editor of choice (with all its syntax highlighting/autocompletion/whatever goodness) opened to a temp file. You do your text editing and save the file. It's All Text detects that the file exists, and then injects the contents of the file into the textarea. This doesn't bring a better text editor to the page by default, but it does give the developer a convenient way to use their preferred editor. And that's what everyone wants anyway, its just better than anyone can expect. Jake On Jan 5, 4:43 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > > if you say "open a shell" they say "open > > what?". > > Tell me about it... lol > > Many of my coworkers can't even figure out how to save a file in the > correct folder... > They find it extremely difficult to go up two folders and down another > level using save as... > I find it... comical. > > I was also surprised when I would mention "linux" to one of my fellow > programming students.. > and they would respond with... "Whats linux?" > > -Thadeus > > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "web2py-users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
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