Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Withers
Charles Y. Choi wrote: With ZMI, you can create different methods/objects and then edit them. The problem is that pretty much every other editor out there doesn't know a whit about the types of objects/methods they are creating. Does emacs really know the difference between a python method,

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-09 Thread Charles Y. Choi
Chris Withers wrote: Charles Y. Choi wrote: With ZMI, you can create different methods/objects and then edit them. The problem is that pretty much every other editor out there doesn't know a whit about the types of objects/methods they are creating. Does emacs really know the difference between

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Withers
Charles Y. Choi wrote: Yes, and though your PUT_factory override is a great thing, it's an unsupported patch: that is, it's not part of the standard packaging of Zope. Urm, PUT_factory has been a standard part of Zope for some time now... The conventions you use (# for PythonScripts)

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-09 Thread Nicola Larosa
ZClasses are a waste of time, even more so than DTML. Words of comfort. :^) Nice never having spent the time to learn 'em. I've not experienced any bugs in ZPT when used in a sane context. Same here, after several months' usage. -- Two witches watch two watches. Which witch watched which

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-08 Thread Romain Slootmaekers
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Charles Y. Choi wrote: IMHO, much of what makes the ZMI difficult to use is due to limitations of the textarea widget in a web browser (no syntax highlighting, no indentation support, etc.) So what if there was a way to get JavaScript to take the contents of a

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-08 Thread Casey Duncan
What you are likely to see in Zope3 at least is the ability to synch objects to and from the filesystem. This would allow you to edit content/code (code-tent?) on the filesystem using your choice of tools and then check it back into the ZODB. Another reason for this is a vision of having all

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-08 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
On 4/8/02 1:17 PM, Martijn Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is wrong with editing the files trough FTP / WebDAV? I've mounted a complete zopedatabase on a directory, and you can edit all files with your favorite editor. Why wanting such editing posibilities in a easy to use , in

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-08 Thread William Trenker
At 12:43 PM 4/8/02 -0700, Charles Y. Choi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far, the best folks have been able to come up with has been to use filenname extensions Are you referring to the Object Type Assocation And Death To index_html planned for Zope 2.6? That document proposes, to add a