[Zope] External Editor (Solved)

Michael Long mlong@datalong.com
Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:33:44 -0500


The problem is created by setting the "save_interval" greater than 4.
After changing the setting the error message went away.

Mike

> ExternalEditor has problems with editors that detach from their parent
> process. I think the only way around this is to have an editor-specific
> plugin to deal with this.  I think there is one for Word, but not for
> notepad.  Try MSWord or gvim instead, or consider figuring out how to
make a
> plugin work for the editor of your choice.  I haven't done this, but I
think
> there is info you can either google for or search list archives.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Sean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Long [mailto:mlong@datalong.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:20 PM
> To: Tim; Michael Long; Zope
> Subject: Re: [Zope] External Editor
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I am baffled because I have the same setup. If I
> use notepad.exe instead of gvim.exe I also get the same message. It must
> be a configuration issue specific to my machine. Does anyone else have
> any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
> > Michael wrote on Thursday, March 6, 2003, 1:18:44 PM:
> > > Does anyone have any hints on how to "configure the editor"?
> > 
> > I'm using ExternalEditor with gvim on XP Pro, as you are. I did no
> > special configuration (that I can recall) beyond the simple:
> > 
> > editor = h:\vim\gvim.exe
> > 
> > in the ZopeEdit.ini
> > 
> > Works great. I don't experience any "connection lost" problems. So
> > this message is not much help, except to say i don't think that
> > snippet you quoted from the ZopeEditor site applies here.
> > 
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