Take a look at Cookbook/SectionEdit which gives you an edit link at the start of each section. Not exactly what you want, but available now, and with a similar end result.
Your idea sounds interesting though. Once I have Blogger stable I'd like to take this on, if no-ones done it by then. ~ ~ Dave Karl Schilke wrote: > I've been thinking about this for a while, and it seems like it would > be relatively easy to work out with some Javascript or similar. > > I use PmWiki as a personal scientific research blog, and for jotting > down ideas for research projects, chemical syntheses, etc. Very often, > I'm in the middle of a page that is several screens long and realize > that I want to make a change. For instance, I suddenly realize that > changing solvents from benzene to DMSO will increase the rate of a > reaction. > > The normal response to this is to scroll-bar all the way to the top of > the page, hit 'Edit', scroll-bar back down through the text until I > find the change I wanted to make, make the change -- if I can still > remember what it was! -- and hit save again. This works, but is > cumbersome and surprisingly often I find *another* thing I want to > change and forget to make the original edit. > > What I'd like to have is a floating 'Edit' button that would stay at a > given point on the screen (say, the bottom right). Hitting this button > would bring up the 'action=edit' screen. Ideally, the source file > would be opened with the cursor positioned somewhere close to the text > I was viewing when I hit the floating edit button. I remember seeing > this sort of thing done for the "Was this information helpful?" > surveys at Adobe.com a few years ago. > > I realize that this is either practically trivial or an incredible > PITA, but I think it would provide a very useful bit of functionality > to PmWiki. > > Thanks! > > -Karl Schilke, Oregon State University > _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
