Posted by Ben Bullock on 07/23/05 14:53

"dorayme" <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:BF08076D.14E2F%dorayme@optusnet.com.au...
>> From: "Ben Bullock" <usenet@sljfaq.org>
>>
>> Is it possible to make a link in an html document something like
>>
>> <a href="edit:file">Edit the file</a>
>>
>> which would then pop up the user's own favourite text editor to edit the
>> file in question?
>>
>> I know it's possible to have a text editing window on a browser screen,
>> but
>> I'd like to be able to send the file to a text editor.
>
>
> In the iCab browser for Macs, there is a setting that enables all the
> source
> code to be viewed (and consequently saved) in any text editor you have on
> board. It will also go directly to the file that powers the browser if it
> is
> on your computer so you can change it. I don't know if you can do this in
> other browsers or on other platforms.

Thanks for your answer. I'm not necessarily thinking of editing the HTML
source code of the page in question.

Anyway thank you for some more insight. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac
though so I can't try it out.

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