I found the renderContent() command and wrote a python script which could upload the file to it and wrapped that in an AppleScript I got from the SEE guys so I could call it directly from the app but the html had a couple of errors in it. I’ll file bugs on that later.

SEE supports The External Editor Protocol outlined here: http://www.merzwaren.com/external_editor.html so support for that in the editor is just a couple of AppleScript commands away. =)

Hmm, live preview sounds really sweet. Perhaps if there was a check if only text was changed, then it could just edit the html or send a smaller piece of wiki to the renderContent or use a lazy update so it won’t update unless you have idled in the editor for x seconds.

Make sure you write a nice blog or send me a mail if you decide to make the code open.

Anyway, I shouldn’t fill your blog/database with my rantings. =)

– kent

There’s actually a renderContent() method in the Remote API at the moment, so no plugin necessary! It would be cool to have a live preview, though… rendering plugins, macros and attachments could cause some problems, though.

Editing it in your favourite editor would be something neat, as well (Transmit does this).

I’ll have a chat to the guys at Atlassian and see what we can do about making it public. If you have any ideas, feel free to create a page in the CONFEXT space on http://confluence.atlassian.com/ and jot down your thoughts.

Jeremy

It would be possible to make a plugin that allows any user to preview content thru a URL POST. That could make it simpler for you to make the preview and let the actual saving of the content come later. I figure its important to get the preview rendered by the actual server you are using due to the plugins and macros.

To be really honest, it would be great to be able to edit the content in SubEthaEdit and have a app which would just give me access to the pages in a way that I could open them in SubEthaEdit and then preview them in a simple way.

Any thoughts on making the code open source or close to it? This is a perfect app where the community could help out with creating a awesome tool.

I get so many ideas just thinking about this that its hard to keep my head to stay with a single idea. ^^

– kent

Keep up the good work. This little app looks quite promising.

I’m not sure yet, actually… It currently doesn’t do synching back to the Confluence server. We were hoping to get rendering working (so it appears like it does in Confluence), but had pains with that, too.

Perhaps in a couple of weeks, I’ll get some free time to polish it a bit and release a version to the public.

Jeremy

… i Crack me up.

When can we see this in action? =)