From reading an earlier post in this group, I just discovered the Open With
Editor command in Firebug, which I never noticed before.
Background: I run a local devel server (Apache) on the same Mac that I use
for browsing and editing web pages, so the "server file" and the "local dev
file" is actually the same file residing on the same machine. I normally
open it in Firefox as a .dev URL, not as a "file" (so all my scripts will
work, among other things).
However, using a Firefox extension called Dafzilla ViewSourceWith, I've
been able to set up a mapping that correlates the URLs with the local
files. For example, when Firefox shows the URL of the current page as:
http://sanstudio.dev/test/linktest.html
...I can click on the ViewSourceWith button in the Firefox toolbar, and my
text editor (BBEdit) will open the "local" file that my local Apache used
to actually generate that URL:
/Volumes/MyHardDrive/MyDevFolder/test/linktest.html
That's my real master source file, not some cached copy. This is extremely
useful to me, but ViewSourceWith doesn't always work with every version of
Firefox.
So I thought it might be possible to get a similar mapping into Firebug
using the Open With Editor dialog. It was easy to add BBEdit as the editor;
that works fine. However, when BBEdit opens a page via Firebug that way,
it's always opening the temporary cached file that the browser uses, not
the real local source file the way ViewSourceWith does.
So I played with Firebug's "Launch Arguments" in the Configure Editors
dialog, trying to figure out how to add a mapping, presumably using the
%file parameter. I tried various things like:
%file /Volumes/MyHardDrive/MyDevFolder/
... and various other things, but when I click the "test" button, every
argument format I've tried either opens Firefox's cached temporary file
(same as if I had entered no arguments) or does nothing at all.
I did a lot of Googling trying to find *specifically* how you enter the
text in the Arguments box, and I looked through the examples in the
dialog's popdown menu, and I still got nowhere.
Next to the %file text-entry box there's a hint that says "Path to the
local file (or to the temporary copy)" which certainly sounds like it
doesn't *have* to be the temporary copy. Is it possible to do what I want
with the Configure Editors dialog? Can anybody tell me how to enter the
argument? Thanks.
Editor command in Firebug, which I never noticed before.
Background: I run a local devel server (Apache) on the same Mac that I use
for browsing and editing web pages, so the "server file" and the "local dev
file" is actually the same file residing on the same machine. I normally
open it in Firefox as a .dev URL, not as a "file" (so all my scripts will
work, among other things).
However, using a Firefox extension called Dafzilla ViewSourceWith, I've
been able to set up a mapping that correlates the URLs with the local
files. For example, when Firefox shows the URL of the current page as:
http://sanstudio.dev/test/linktest.html
...I can click on the ViewSourceWith button in the Firefox toolbar, and my
text editor (BBEdit) will open the "local" file that my local Apache used
to actually generate that URL:
/Volumes/MyHardDrive/MyDevFolder/test/linktest.html
That's my real master source file, not some cached copy. This is extremely
useful to me, but ViewSourceWith doesn't always work with every version of
Firefox.
So I thought it might be possible to get a similar mapping into Firebug
using the Open With Editor dialog. It was easy to add BBEdit as the editor;
that works fine. However, when BBEdit opens a page via Firebug that way,
it's always opening the temporary cached file that the browser uses, not
the real local source file the way ViewSourceWith does.
So I played with Firebug's "Launch Arguments" in the Configure Editors
dialog, trying to figure out how to add a mapping, presumably using the
%file parameter. I tried various things like:
%file /Volumes/MyHardDrive/MyDevFolder/
... and various other things, but when I click the "test" button, every
argument format I've tried either opens Firefox's cached temporary file
(same as if I had entered no arguments) or does nothing at all.
I did a lot of Googling trying to find *specifically* how you enter the
text in the Arguments box, and I looked through the examples in the
dialog's popdown menu, and I still got nowhere.
Next to the %file text-entry box there's a hint that says "Path to the
local file (or to the temporary copy)" which certainly sounds like it
doesn't *have* to be the temporary copy. Is it possible to do what I want
with the Configure Editors dialog? Can anybody tell me how to enter the
argument? Thanks.