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#1 2007-11-13 03:10:29
- AlexStacey
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editing Forms etc in external text editor
I’m finding editing files in the web based form quite frustrating. It would be really nice if there was a way to work on files in a text editor then commit them to the textpattern db. is there anything like that available?
svn would be cool but i guess with a post commit hook to submit to the database…
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Re: editing Forms etc in external text editor
its not a textpattern-only solution but i use its all text! firefox addon to basically edit any textarea/box with any text editor on your machine
Last edited by iblastoff (2007-11-13 04:08:21)
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#3 2007-11-13 04:51:08
- net-carver
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Re: editing Forms etc in external text editor
iblastoff wrote:
its not a textpattern-only solution but i use its all text! firefox addon to basically edit any textarea/box with any text editor on your machine
Very nice! This will come in handy, thank you.
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#4 2007-11-13 08:47:37
- ooz
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Re: editing Forms etc in external text editor
I’ve been using it’s all text in combination with notepad++ for a while and got fed up with it.
First, the main purpose was to have a highlighted view over styles the way I was used to, but having quite a number of txp-admin-windows open at the same time, either in different tabs or browserwindows, it sometimes changed into guessing which one to “save” via a submit-button. Sometimes I even had the same stylesheet or form open in two different tabs (accidentially).
The solutions I’m looking for though seem all to point somewhere else than a TXP-plugin. Something like an “autosave”-option might bring me closer. One powerful alternative would be to develop or hack another backend-tool. My workspace*) for example includes notepad++ and winscp as the main tools because I can open a (not databased) stylesheet directly from the server and saving will show results in realtime. (yeah, sad but unforgivingly effective, I externalized all styles from TXP-db just to save time and get the power back)
*) my pc-days are counted :)
“Habit is probably the greatest obstacle of perceiving truth.” R.A. Schwaller de Lubitz
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#5 2007-11-13 14:24:06
- AlexStacey
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Re: editing Forms etc in external text editor
the It’s all text! thing seems like it would be a good solution but it doesn’t seem to work with vim. Maybe I just need to RTFM (if i can find ‘TFM’ that is!) =]
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#6 2007-11-13 14:40:44
- AlexStacey
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Re: editing Forms etc in external text editor
ahh… it works fine with gvim. good enough for me =]
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Re: editing Forms etc in external text editor
Here’s another solution along these lines that I’ve just discovered. Alas for mac users only but pretty seamless: Quickcursor (homepage). Costs $5.
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Hog Bay is an excellent Mac developer. I’ll be buying a copy.
Edit: Wow — App Store only? I guess I’ll upgrade to X.6.6.
Last edited by jsoo (2011-01-07 16:26:35)
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Re: editing Forms etc in external text editor
It seems to be the day for it: another tip for Mac Users, this time for Firefox: View Firefox page source in an external editor
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