Christian Andersson wrote:

Thomas Benisch wrote:

Rony G. Flatscher wrote:

Hmm, how about a menu option allowing editing text with an external editor like emacs, vim etc. ?

The same would make life for programmers a easier with the scripting framework editor as well.


Just for the case, that somebody wants to work on this. The key problem
with the integration of external editors or IDEs is, that those editors
work on the disk file system and cannot work on virtual file systems.
The Basic IDE works on some kind of virtual file system, for document macros especially on the document storage.


well that is knd of easy to solve, just do it as many other clients that allow external editors to edit files on a virtual filesystem, for example ftp/ssh clients type of programs..

They just save down the file to the local harddisk, and then monitors this file for changes,and also monitors the application that it started to see when it exits... whenever the file has changed it puts back the file to the server, this can be done in OOo also, it takes the macro virtual file and saves it to a temporary file, opens the editor so that it edits this temporary file, and monitors the file for changes, whenever it has been changed to reads the file back and puts the content back to the virtual filesystem..

Does anyone know right off the head of a Java class that one could employ (assuming that such Java classes would take advantage of whatever functions the target operating system supplies for that purpose)?

I know it is not a perfect sollution, but it is better then nothing

Hmm, also one would need a setup option to allow defining the editor to use and a storage location from which to look up that piece of information.

---rony

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