External Editor 0.8a0 Change Log

External Editor Change Log

Added "long_file_name" and "file_name_separator" config options.
Fixed bug which happened under Win32 when editing an Excel file using the Excel plugin where the symptom was a "Call was rejected by callee" COM error. Thanks to Chris McDonough.

Change default configuration to use .txt extension for text/plain only. Add extensions for css and javascript files.
Fixed packaging bug in Windows binary which disabled several plugins. This fixes "Editor did not launch properly" errors for MSOffice among others.
Fixed a bug where very short editing sessions where no changes were made could make EE think the editor never launched. Thanks to Maik Ihde.

Fix encoding bug in windows binary. Thanks to Chris McDonough.
Added tip for configuring IE to save files over SSL. Thanks to Jonah Bossewitch.

Added working distutils setup for Unix.
You can now specify from the server that the helper app should borrow a lock by passing borrow_lock=1 via the request, thus suppressing the dialog box which appears by default. Thanks to Shane Hathaway.
Improved open file check in Word and Powerpoint plugins thanks to Yura Petrov.
Added plugins for Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Added the man page from the Debian distro. Thanks go out to Federico Sevilla III and Andreas Tille

Built Windows helper app using Python 2.2.2 and PythonWin 148.
The externalEdit object now accepts a path argument to the object to edit, allowing URLs like: http://zope/externalEdit?path=/some/object. This allows external editor to play better with applications making use of traversal magic of their own. Thanks to Tres Seaver.
Fixed NameError bug in unlock retry code. Thanks to Federico Sevilla III.
Added a workaround for non-compliant SSL servers. The software now silently ignores "EOF occurred in violation of protocol" errors coming from httplib. Thanks to Christopher Deckard.
Removed stderr writes to cure "Invalid File Descriptor" errors on Windows. Thanks to Martijn Peters.
Added Photoshop plugin (win32)
Added HomeSite plugin (win32)
Added win32 editor plugin support for the helper application.

Added patch for Zope find template so that you can use external editor directly from find results in the ZMI. Thanks to Jim Washington.
Factored out external editor link generator. Product now registers a global method "externalEditLink_" which can be called to generate the external editor icon link for any object.
External editing is now governed by the "Use external editor" permission to allow non-managers to use it. Users must also have the permissions to edit/modify the objects they edit, plus do WebDAV locking if desired. Thanks to Reineke and others.
Unix editor command line parsing is much more robust now and properly handles quoted arguments. You can also specify the "$1" placeholder in the editor command to denote where the content file name is inserted. If omitted it is appended to the end of the command line. "%1" continues to work similarly for Windows. Thanks to Marc St-Jean.
Fixed bug editing large (chunked) files and images. External editor now streams their data properly to the client. Thanks to all the users who reported various symptoms of this bug.
Fixed bug editing objects inside a Squishdot site. Thanks to Kevin Salt.
Added the capability to borrow exising DAV locks. This allows external editor to play well with other systems using locks, such as CMFStaging. A new configuration flag, always_borrow_locks can be set to suppress the borrow lock warning dialog when editing.
Fixed auth bug when product was used with mysqlUserFolder. Thanks to ViNiL.

Fixed dangling dav lock bug on fatal errors. Thanks to Marc St-Jean.
Fixed content_type bug, now checks if it is callable. Thanks to Arnaud Bienvenu.
Fixed bug with editing binary data on Windows. Thanks to Eric Kamm.
Fixed bug setting the editor on Posix platforms.

Added --version command line argument
Made manage_FTPget the default source for the editable content, instead of document_src which was broken for CMF Wiki Pages.
Fixed Windows "body_file" bug.
Added binary build support for Windows using py2exe and Inno setup.
Fixed Windows config file locator. It now looks in the program directory and then the user's home directory (if specified)
Fixed bug in Windows registry editor lookup.

Improved behavior when saving after lock attempts fail.
Now works on Windows (applause) using Pythonwin. Much overall refactoring to abstract process control. Thanks to Oliver Deckmyn, Gabriel Genellina and Arno Gross for testing, patches and suggestions.
Added "temp_dir" configuration option for specifying a different temp file directory then the OS default. Also further improved temp file name generation.
Added support for domain specific configuration options.
Fixed trailing newline bug in encoded auth data coming from CookieCrumbler. Thanks to Harald Koschinski.
You can now pass command line arguments to the editor in the config file, or wrap the editor in an xterm without using a shell script.
Rewrote "Editor did not launch" error message so it makes more sense.
Fixed https detection bug. External editor is now tested and working with https. Many thanks to Hans-Dieter Stich and Martin Gr�nemeyer for their assistance and ideas.
Made it possible to edit objects that are methods of ZClasses. Thanks to Jim Washington
Refactored link generation code in manage_main so that it uses the parent's absolute_url rather than URL1. Thanks to Jim Washington
Removed implicit save in Configuration class destructor
Added caching headers to prevent client-side caching of edit data. Thanks to Gabriel Genellina for pointing this out.
Added improved support for editing CMF documents
Eliminated spurious "Editor did not launch" errors on short sessions or when other errors occurred.