On Jan 25, 2010, at 1:06 PM, John C. Welch wrote: > On 1/25/10 3:42 PM, "Brent Simmons" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> 6) I could care less about external editors, and actually hate the >>>>> concept. >>>>> (Do YOU get gobs of email composed in Word? I do, and it sucks. It allll >>>>> sucks. Bad idea. BAAAAAAD idea.) >>>> >>>> I don't think anyone's suggesting Word. BBEdit, yes. Word, no. >>> >>> You do realize that once you say 'external editor', your ability to control >>> what that is goes to zero. Quickly. >> >> It would most likely be limited to apps that support a specific Apple-events >> protocol. The list includes BBEdit, TextMate, a few other text editors -- but >> not Word. So we do have at least some control over this. > > What apple events does BBEdit and Textmate support that Word doesn't. Word's > got quite extensive support for this, the Mac BU is kind of into automation > from a Mac POV.
To my knowledge, Word doesn't support the ODBEditor Apple events. Many text editors do. http://www.scripting.com/midas/odbEditor/default.html -Brent _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
