A new version of ecto is out. It has two new features. One is the addition of an advanced option (listed in the Advanced pane of the Preferences window) to open the attachment settings sheet automatically after inserting files into the draft window. The second one is support for external editor, an often made request I'm finally honoring.
Implementing support for external editors is awfully easy, thanks to BBEdit's ODB Editor Suite. If you're a developer and you want to give users the ability to edit text in their preferred ODB supported editor, this example should get you going. Basically, it's just sending and receiving an Apple Event.
I implemented external editor support in a way that allows you to edit text in both apps. If you choose “Edit With” from the Edit menu and work on the text in BBEdit, any time you save the text in BBEdit, the text in ecto is updated. Any time you edit the text in ecto and save, the text in BBEdit gets updated as well. After all, you might want to apply a custom HTML tag or insert and/or upload attachment (Note that it is not recommended to edit attachment HTML fragments while they have not been uploaded yet).
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Ok, for the deep-geeks out here, what I'd really like to see is a way to hook my own editors in there. xvim, or xemacs, or something like that. I generally work in ecto, but there are times when I want the added power of my favorite editor.
I know, I should post this is the forum...