Re: wiki editing with its-all-text

On 24 Feb 2011, at 00:14, Pierre-Antoine Champin <pchampin@liris.cnrs.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am also a big fan of its-all-text :)
> 
> Not sure what 'open' does in the workaround found by Ivan, but I think the problem is related to th editor running in the background or in the foreground.
> 

I do not know the details, but this definitely works for me...

Ivan



> IIRC its-all-text expect the editor to run in the foreground, so if it is not the default behaviour of your editor, you need to find the command-line options to prevent it to run in the background. For example, if you want to use 'gvim', you have to use the '-f' option.
> 
> hope his helps
> 
>  pa
> 
> 
> On 02/22/2011 11:47 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> Thanks Antoine, I will look at it. In the meantime, I found the
>> following trick on the Web (I should have thought about it...):
>> create a shell script somewhere (I have put it into
>> /Users/Ivan/bin/.iot.sh) which is like:
>> 
>> 
>> #!/bin/sh open -a /Applications/Editors/TextWrangler.app "$@"
>> 
>> 
>> (replace it with the path to your local editor)
>> 
>> and set this script in the Its-only-text preferences.
>> 
>> Any similar trick for Safari? I am not really prepared to move to FF
>> as my primary browser...
>> 
>> Ivan
>> 
>> On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:38 , Antoine Zimmermann wrote:
>> 
>>> Ivan, all,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> You can find alternative to its-all-text on that wikipedia page:
>>> 
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards, --AZ
>>> 
>>> Le 22/02/2011 11:08, Ivan Herman a écrit :
>>>> Interestingly, on the Mac with Firefox 4 (ok, that one is Beta)
>>>> it does not work perfectly. If I set the preference to, say,
>>>> TextWrangler (which my default text editor) than it does not
>>>> work, but if I set it to TextEdit (the editor that came with the
>>>> Mac), it does.
>>>> 
>>>> Ivan
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 21, 2011, at 19:49 , Sandro Hawke wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> FYI, what makes the wiki usable for me is a firefox extension:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
>>>>> 
>>>>> It's one of several approaches to editing wiki pages in your
>>>>> normal editor (in my case emacs) instead of the browser.  I
>>>>> can't really imagine life without it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- Sandro
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF:
>>>> http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home:
>> http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key:
>> http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF:
>> http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
>> 
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