> if you say "open a shell" they say "open > what?".
Tell me about it... lol Many of my coworkers can't even figure out how to save a file in the correct folder... They find it extremely difficult to go up two folders and down another level using save as... I find it... comical. I was also surprised when I would mention "linux" to one of my fellow programming students.. and they would respond with... "Whats linux?" -Thadeus On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > all I ever needed was emacs and grep but you will be surprised of how > many students I see who, if you say "open a shell" they say "open > what?". > > On Jan 5, 1:31 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: >> Here is my confusion.... >> >> If your going to use an editor on your local computer.... why are you >> going to even bother with using web2py to view the files... If your >> already going to have Explorer/Nautilus/<insert file browser here> you >> can just double click the files and edit them... >> >> There would be no way for you to use an external editor to edit files >> that are located on a server (unless your using ssh in a fuseFS)... >> >> In any case, I just don't see any logical reason to use the web2py >> admin as a filebrowser... nautilus/explorer does an excellent job of >> this already. >> >> Of course, you could create a mimetype... but that would require users >> to "open link with application", and then that application would need >> to know how to interpret said mimetype. >> >> I guess the problem is... I don't see the "reason" for this... >> >> -Thadeus >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:40 PM, <s...@pobox.com> wrote: >> > pretty much what It's All Text does for you. When active, it >> > presents a little (edit) button at the edge of the current <textarea> >> > widget. Click it and it fires up the editor you've configured. That can >> > be >> > as plain (think "xterm ed") or fancy (think vim, X/Emacs or other editor >> > with all the syntax highlighting they brin >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > > >
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