                                                                                                   = Features of the web-editing system


* Introduction


  This page is supposed to provide some information about currently
  supported features of the web-editing system.

* One very good thing

  I just discovered something which has really made me quite happy,
  although in someways it is fairly sad that this is the sort of 
  thing that is making me happy these days. Basically the good thing
  which I have discovered is this;

  If you like to use command lines interfaces and computer systems
  which dont have any graphical windowing system installed, not
  that you have anything against images, and also you have grown
  attached to certain very old programs that have grown up in the 
  unix world and which seem to just get better and better the more
  that you know about- and I am refering to such venerable pieces
  of c language code such as the vim text editor, its vi ancestor,
  its ed great grandparent, the remarkable lynx text browser, and
  perhaps its 'links' variant, and such remarkable things as the 
  sed stream editor, which itself was created with the quite 
  interesting yacc and lex parser generators and so... then,
  if you made it through that subordinate clause, you will be 
  happy like me, that if you set the editor of lynx to be vim,
  by pressing o and typing 'vim' in the appropriate spot, 
  and if you press control-X e when you are in an HTML textarea
  then you will get to edit the text area contents in vim. 

  That is really quite special, and demonstrates one more time the
  power of non-monolithic programming. The best path is to find
  a way to and a format to link programs, such as the plain text
  encoding and the stream mechanism, and then write small good
  programs. 

  Now why I am happy about this is that it means that I can
  use the application which I wrote in php and which is at
  http://wagga-cwc.org.au/refurb/webpad/control.php to edit
  all the files contained there.

  This file you are reading now was edited using this handy
  lynx / vim combination running on a redhat 9 box and 
  doing normal http comunication with the php application
  running on a webserver somewhere or other. 

  I believe that my application is someways adheres to the 
  unix spirit of small programs to one thing well. It also
  obeys the principle of economy of usage of resources,
  of use of the text encoding as the data exchange format ...
  etc.




* User Features

  

  a-
   Automatic hyperlinking of URL type text in documents
   - 
   Support for different 'types' of documents, such as FAQs, journal, blog
   or diary style document, and normal information documents.
   -
   Automatic creation of hyperlinked contents in an appropriate format
   for each type of document
   -
   Ability to template documents with preprepared HTML
   -
   creation of ordered and un-ordered lists
   -
   Copying and renaming of server files
   -
   Search for files on the server
   
   

* Administration Features

  a-
   Editing of any text file on the server, with a slightly configurable
   browser editor
   -
   Removal of server directories into the 'trash' (not quite complete)
   -
   Copying of server directories
   -
   Creation of server directories
   - 
   Back-up of server directories into compressed files
   - 
   Easy switching between files and directories
   -
   Automatic backing up of old versions of edited files
   -
   Templating of application messages

  'Edit Document' http://www.wagga-cwc.org.au/refurb/webpad/webpad.php?file=%2Fhome%2Fwaggacwc%2Fpublic_html%2Frefurb%2Fdocs%2Ffeatures.txt
  Este documento en 'espanyol' link:///refurb/docs/features.es.html

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