Tell Gus what you think, but remember- you are in his home. Be a good guest.

Very cool!

Posted by Brent Simmons at February 5th 2004 09:30 PM

OK, that absolutely rocks. I've heard bits and pieces about input managers, but I never really looked into them too closely.

Any chance it would work in Xcode? Seems like this could be one way to get around Xcode's lousy external editor support.

Of course, one of the reasons I use BBEdit with Xcode (in addition to BBEdit kick butt text editing environment) is that it gives me insurance in case Xcode crashes. When happens if you're editing a file in BBEdit via the input manager and the host application crashes?

Posted by Eric Blair at February 5th 2004 09:39 PM

I just tried it out in XCode, and it worked fine.

If you're editing a file in BBEdit and the host app crashes, the file is still around in a temp directory.

I should note- that this isn't exactly a perfect solution, since if the XCode window that you were editing closes and you do a save in bbedit, XCode crashes. I've been told of a solution to this, and I might give it a try. We'll see.

Posted by August Mueller at February 5th 2004 09:46 PM

Sounds very clever, give it away free of course :)

Posted by Tim at February 6th 2004 04:19 AM

There are a couple of bugs to work out- I'll post it after I get those figured out.

-gus

Posted by Gus Mueller at February 6th 2004 06:54 AM

Nice!

I still remember seeing your eyes light up when I mentioned the Input Manager to you in person.

Robb

Posted by Robb Beal at February 6th 2004 07:17 AM

Heh- I've known about the Input Manager for a _long_ time Robb, I just haven't had a reason to use it yet.

Posted by Gus Mueller at February 6th 2004 07:23 AM

Of course!

Nicholas Riley has lots of experience with Input Managers if you haven't already been in touch.

Robb

Posted by Robb Beal at February 6th 2004 07:47 AM

Will this work with SubEthaEdit, too?

Steve

Posted by Steve Dieringer at February 6th 2004 11:23 AM

This is a feature I've always wanted to add to ICeCoffEE, it's so cool that you've done it.

Another thing I wanted to add, somewhat related, was to permit NSTextFields to be edited in external windows, something like OmniWeb does with multiline edit fields.

Posted by Nicholas Riley at February 7th 2004 06:57 AM

Nicholas: What's weird is, it'll work in safari's textfields as well. I guess they must be using nstextviews there, because it'll work just fine in the address bar, and in form fields too.

Posted by Gus Mueller at February 7th 2004 08:20 AM

yes! i would like to get this working with text edit because i can't afford bbedit. if you could get this working with emacs :-) I would be very grateful

Posted by Roland Tanglao at February 9th 2004 12:40 PM