[PATCH] Adding ExternalEditor support

[sidnei@…]

There's a nice app in Zope called ExternalEditor.

​http://www.zope.org/Members/Caseman/ExternalEditor

It consists of a server-side product and a client-side python script. The server sends the file content in a special encoded manner, with the 'application/x-zope-edit' content-type header. The client, when properly configured as a handler application for this content type on your browser, fires up an editor, and upon saving the file does a PUT back to the server.

The following patch is my first attempt at adding this feature to trac, however I have a couple questions (which have been marked as XXX on the diff) before finishing it.

[sidnei@…]

First attempt at adding the external edit feature to trac. Needs review.

[sid]

Change keyword to match others (for easier searching)

[Noah Kantrowitz (coderanger) <coderanger@…>]

See also: ​this thread from trac-users.

[Christian Boos]

This can be achieved with the ​Th:XmlRpcPlugin. For example, Shun-Ichi Gotoh used this to enable ​remote Wiki editing from within Emacs.