On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Brent Simmons wrote: > On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, John C. Welch 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.
Instead of using ODB editor suite, we could use KQueues to watch for file updates and then reload from the file system when a change occurs (from a save in another app). It's not as robust as ODB, but it works (and that's what Transmit and JSTalk Editor does). This way it'll work with any app that support text, or whatever we write out as. -gus -- August 'Gus' Mueller Flying Meat Inc. http://flyingmeat.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
