> From: Andrea Wiggins <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]

Hello Andrea,

> I think my colleague James Howison requested the ability to launch an  
> external text editor for beanshells sometime last year, so please add  
> a +2 for the request for an improved beanshell text editor. I like the  
> idea of being able to launch an alternate external text editor because  
> most users are likely to have a program suited to their specific  
> tastes and needs. Sadly, my coding skills are such that I can't  
> contribute the code to do it, but I can share my usual work-arounds.

It is certainly possible to launch an external editor e.g. Eclipse
does it - sometimes when I don't want it to :-) Parts of Taverna, such
as the command line local worker, already run external programs.  It
sounds do-able.

There are at least two types of service that allow script editing - R
and the beanshell.  Whatever is done for one should probably be done
for the other(s) as well.

Would users generally prefer an external editor or to use a built-in
one?

Using an external editor would be less work, long term, for Taverna
people to support.

[snip of workarounds]

> Andrea

Alan

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