[Axiom-developer] Using Emacs to edit the Wiki

[Kai Oliver Kaminski]

It isn't difficult at all.

Go to http://www.zope.org/Members/Caseman/ExternalEditor.

Mac Users: Download the ZopeEditManager, put it into your Application 
Folder, start it, change the Preferences to reflect your choice of 
editor and set ZopeEditManager as the MIME handler for 
application/x-zope-edit in your browser.


Unix Users:

    Download zopeedit-src.tgz and extract it. Enter the zopeedit
    directory and run (You may need to be root)::

      python2.2 setup.py install

    This will install the zopeedit.py executable (in /usr/local/bin on 
my
    system). Alternately, you can just copy zopeedit.py to the location 
of
    your choosing.

    Once you have the helper application installed, you need to 
configure your
    browser to fire it off appropriately. To do so, create an entry in 
the
    helper applications list for your browser(s) that associates the 
mime type
    "application/x-zope-edit" with the helper application.

        Step by step instructions for Mozilla and Konqueror are in the README.


  Tips

    The helper application can run any editor program that does not 
detach
    itself from the controlling process.

    To get terminal based editors to work, you need to spawn them 
inside an
    xterm. to do this, use something like the following for the editor 
option::

      editor = xterm -e vi

    You can of course modify the above to fire up your favorite 
terminal and
    editor or add any command line arguments you want.

    As for editors that insist on detaching from the controlling 
process (gvim
    does this by default), you need to configure them so that they do 
not
    detach. For gvim you could use::

      editor = gvim -f


DO NOT FORGET TO WRITE SOMETHING IN THE 'Log: '-LINE, OTHERWISE THE 
CHANGES WON'T BE ACCEPTED.

Hope that helps,
Kai