This page is deprecated
External.exe now has a new home and a new maintainer, Felix Klee. Please visit the link below for the latest version of external.exe:
http://code.google.com/p/external-exe/
External.exe is a program which allows an external text editor to be run from any application using a single keystroke.
This utility developed as a from discusstions around this vim tip.
Installation and Configuration
After downloading and unzipping http://bur.st/~benc/external/external.zip ensure that the files external.exe and external.ini are in a directory together.
Open external.ini in a text editor and set the options "Editor" and "!EditorBinding" as explained in the comments in the file.
The program can be started by manually running the external.exe command. But once you get a configuration you like you may want to place a shortcut in your Start/Programs/Startup folder so it will be automatically executed.
Tip: When configuring external.exe it can be useful to use the Restart (Shift-Ctrl-Alt-R) and Exit (Shift-Ctrl-Alt-X) bindings to reconfigure your program.
Usage
To use the program, once it is configured and running, move the cursor to the text area of an application and type your !EditorBinding keystroke (Windows-V, for example)
Vim
Also provided with the program is a vim script "external.vim". This file can be installed by putting it in your vim plugin folder. With an appropriately configured Editor option in external.ini vim will be able to recognise the filetype of the text you are editing by using the application window title as a clue.
External.vim has so far only been tested on a small number of applications and filetypes, but it should be relatively easy to add new filetypes by modifying the External() function in the script.
I have finally replaced the back end of my website. This means that what you are looking at looks pretty similar to what was here earlier but it is quite a bit easier for me to use :-)
I reckon not many people come by this way anyway.
I have some more things I want to implement like say...
- set up proper comments on blog entries,
- developing the ability to make web pages look good (i mean look at this colour scheme!),
- clean up lots of other things,
- make the time be Brisbane time not GMT time,
- and dontcha reckon that getting an RSS feed going would be way cool,
- and of course setting up a scheme so that I will forget to ever update this page ever again.
if you can see Trinity the test worked.
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This page is deprecated
External.exe now has a new home and a new maintainer, Felix Klee. Please visit the link below for the latest version of external.exe:
http://code.google.com/p/external-exe/
External.exe is a program which allows an external text editor to be run from any application using a single keystroke.
This utility developed as a from discusstions around this vim tip.
Installation and Configuration
After downloading and unzipping http://bur.st/~benc/external/external.zip ensure that the files external.exe and external.ini are in a directory together.
Open external.ini in a text editor and set the options "Editor" and "!EditorBinding" as explained in the comments in the file.
The program can be started by manually running the external.exe command. But once you get a configuration you like you may want to place a shortcut in your Start/Programs/Startup folder so it will be automatically executed.
Tip: When configuring external.exe it can be useful to use the Restart (Shift-Ctrl-Alt-R) and Exit (Shift-Ctrl-Alt-X) bindings to reconfigure your program.
Usage
To use the program, once it is configured and running, move the cursor to the text area of an application and type your !EditorBinding keystroke (Windows-V, for example)
Vim
Also provided with the program is a vim script "external.vim". This file can be installed by putting it in your vim plugin folder. With an appropriately configured Editor option in external.ini vim will be able to recognise the filetype of the text you are editing by using the application window title as a clue.
External.vim has so far only been tested on a small number of applications and filetypes, but it should be relatively easy to add new filetypes by modifying the External() function in the script.
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