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

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

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...