---snip--- If you submit a page and somebody else has saved a version since you clicked "edit", the code will first attempt to use "diff3" (if present and correctly referenced in LocalSettings.php) to merge the two sets of changes automatically; if that fails, you will be given an "edit conflict" screen with the two conflicting versions in textareas and a diff, and ask you to merge them by hand.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:56:50 +0100, f2396576(a)est.fib.upc.edu <f2396576(a)est.fib.upc.edu> wrote: Well, without really knowing what you're trying to customise exactly, the answer is almost certainly yes: PHP isn't a compiled language, so everything that's running is there waiting to be hacked. Note that there's a lot of customisation you can do without altering the code, and various things which may or may not make what you want to do easy. Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents for some pointers. If you submit a page and somebody else has saved a version since you clicked "edit", the code will first attempt to use "diff3" (if present and correctly referenced in LocalSettings.php) to merge the two sets of changes automatically; if that fails, you will be given an "edit conflict" screen with the two conflicting versions in textareas and a diff, and ask you to merge them by hand. Note that testing this requires logging in to two accounts, as conflicts between the same user are treated as exceptions. I believe most of the code related to this is in includes/EditPage.php Well, as a web-based application, invoking an external editor is not really something MediaWiki can or should concern itself with - if the browser wants to invoke an external editor for textareas, then that's fine. There are a few extensions for Mozilla and/or Firefox that allow you to do this, for instance, and see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support for some tools (syntax highlighting etc) people have written for dealing with wiki markup in various editors. If you actually just mean some automated task, and "external editor" is a red herring, then sure, you can integrate whatever you like - just find an appropriate place to put it in the source. PHP documentation can be found at http://php.net if you're not sure how best to call the program. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l