
The ftp client sends the editor an 'odoc' event with some additional parameters: The augmented 'odoc' event. When the user saves the document from the external editor, the file is automagically uploaded back to the remote machine by the ftp client. When you select a file in a remote directory and choose that command, the file is downloaded to a temporary location (the invisible "Cleanup At Startup" folder) and opened in the external editor. The clients of this protocol have an "Edit with " menu command. This protocol is currently implemented by BBEdit, Style, Tex-Edit Plus and PageSpinner on the server side, and by Interarchy, NetFinder, Transmit and Fetch on the client side. The server application is usually a text editor, and the client application is usually an ftp client, but nothing prevents the protocol from being used in other scenarios as well. The External Editor Protocol described in this page is a client/server protocol based on Apple events.

November 8, 2000: added a proposal for editor-initiated editing sessions.In the meantime, Fetch, Jim Matthews's popular ftp client, added support for the client side, but seems to limit the choice of external editors to BBEdit.

January 12, 2001: the latest beta of Tex-Edit Plus supports the server side of this protocol.January 29, 2001: With a message to the Interarchy Talk mailing list, Peter N Lewis announced support for both of our proposed protocol enhancements in a future (post-4.0) version of Interarchy.February 4, 2001: The just released Tex-Edit Plus 4.1 adds support for this protocol.

This version can edit remote text files with the aid of external editors other than BBEdit. April 26, 2001: Interarchy 4.1 (formerly Anarchie) is now available.
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