Hi,
How about moving things like the list welcome message, headers, footers and other multiple line texts out of the database and into seperate text files? And treat/edit them in the same way as the html templates... this would it also make it easier to edit them directly. I remember having a lot of difficulties (when I started using mailman about a year ago) with creating the welcome message because the textarea was too small and strange things happened when i cut/pasted it into the textarea with Netscape on Linux (I had to boot windows just to be able to enter the welcome message properly ;) )
Ricardo.
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Ricardo Kustner wrote:
How about moving things like the list welcome message, headers, footers and other multiple line texts out of the database and into seperate text files? And treat/edit them in the same way as the html templates... this would it also make it easier to edit them directly. I remember having a lot of difficulties (when I started using mailman about a year ago) with creating the welcome message because the textarea was too small and strange things happened when i cut/pasted it into the textarea with Netscape on Linux (I had to boot windows just to be able to enter the welcome message properly ;) )
I agree. But maybe have both available. As in, the web page grabs the info from the txt files and allows you to edit via the web interface or directly from the txt files.
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Matt Davis wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Ricardo Kustner wrote:
How about moving things like the list welcome message, headers, footers and other multiple line texts out of the database and into seperate text files? And treat/edit them in the same way as the html templates... this would it also make it easier to edit them directly. I remember having a lot of difficulties (when I started using mailman about a year ago) with creating the welcome message because the textarea was too small and strange things happened when i cut/pasted it into the textarea with Netscape on Linux (I had to boot windows just to be able to enter the welcome message properly ;) )
I agree. But maybe have both available. As in, the web page grabs the info from the txt files and allows you to edit via the web interface or directly from the txt files.
Thirded, bigtime. Such "obvious changers" should be RCSed, for instance, and there's no easy way to do that with the current scheme. I keep threatening, although I haven't yet, to set up a script that will "check out text, allow editing, check it back in, and invoke Python to shove it into config.db". (that's actually pretty easy to do; just open the file and set "m.welcome_msg" from it, for the welcome, for instance..)
How about moving things like the list welcome message, headers, footers and other multiple line texts out of the database and into seperate text files? And treat/edit them in the same way as the html templates... this would it also make it easier to edit them directly. I agree. But maybe have both available. As in, the web page grabs the info from the txt files and allows you to edit via the web interface or directly from the txt files. Yes that's actually what I was thinking about too... but have it editted in the same way as the html templates (one page with a big
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 04:28:25PM -0500, Matt Davis wrote: textarea to give more editting freedom).
Ricardo.
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