Re: How to achieve menu access to edit text files?

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Author: Bart Garst
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To: PLUG Discuss
Subject: Re: How to achieve menu access to edit text files?
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 22:56, Josef Lowder wrote:
> How to achieve menu access to edit text files?
>
> The objective:
> To be able to set up an html menu that can be accessed by any
> browser (mainly with Konqueror) with multiple href link options
> predefined within this menu so that I can open pre-designated text files
> with kedit (or any other designated text editor) with a single mouse-click.
>
> I want to be able to set this up so that I can open predefined text files
> into either the same window or optionally into a separate window
> so that I can edit and/or write additional text to the designated file(s)
> with no intervening steps required.
>
> Ideally, I would like to be able to accomplish this by using a simple
> code within a single html menu without having to also use any additional
> (intervening) files.
>

...snip...

Will all this be done locally or does it have to work remotely?

A local only implementation could be to use a cgi script that opens the
specified file in the specified editor, using a html form.

Not absolutely sure this will work, it's just a knee-jerk response to
your problem. If it sounds worth exploring I'd be happy to help.

Bart

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