David J. Biesack wrote:
I'm trying to configure external editors as per
[[m:Help:External editors]] and have downloaded the ee extension from
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/ee/ and I'm reading the
install instructions at
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/ee/INSTALL?rev=1…
I'm running a Windows XP machine. When I go to my MediaWiki 1.5.0 site on our
intranet and enable the external editor via my preferences, when I click an article's
edit button (using Firefox 1.0.7), I am asked what I want to do with the downloaded file
index.php.
I do not want to set up an automatic mime time for php files - that would be dangerous.
How do I configure Firefox to present the application/x-external-editor mime type. There
is a caveat in the install:
Caveat: Versions of Firefox I've tested are very buggy when indicating the
MIME type. It may be displayed as "PHP script" instead of
application/x-external-editor -- it will still be correctly associated,
though.
but I'm not convinced :-)
Fortunately, I've walked this road. ;)
The Firefox interface is a little screwed up in this respect, and IMHO
should be changed. It always uses MIME types internally, never file
extensions. Ignoring the type name and extension, check the boxes as you
think you should (although some of the meta-info about the MIME type
will be a little screwed up).
I'm assuming you've downloaded ee.pl and configured that as needed,
changed the bat, etc.
If you want to check it, setup a new profile and associate it. Then
check in <Profile>\mimeTypes.rdf (<Profile> is the path of the Firefox
profile, eg "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xclsv8se.default").
-- Jamie
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