Re: [gedit-list] Help with external tools plugin

[Micah Carrick <email micahcarrick com>]

Thank you. Your suggestion worked perfectly.

- Micah

Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> Micah Carrick wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to setup the external tools plugin to allow me to go 
> > directly to the PHP manual's function reference for the word at the 
> > cursor. 
>
> > The help says that the "Output" is passed to the command as stdin. 
>
> Does it ? If so it is a typo, it's the "Input" that is passed to the 
> command. So you have to set the input to "selection" or "word".
>
> > #!/bin/bash
> > $p = read
> > firefox http://www.php.net/search.php?lang=en&show=quickref&pattern=$p
>
> what about that ?
>  xargs -I '{}' epiphany \
>  'http://www.php.net/search.php?lang=en&show=quickref&pattern={}'
>
> > A second thing: I had change a setting using the gconf-editor in 
> > order to allow gedit to open files via FTP with write-access. Are FTP 
> > files opened read-only for security reasons or what?
>
> This is because gnome-vfs is not very reliable when it comes to 
> writing to an FTP remote directory...