How do I use fckeditor offline??

I need a more or less wysiwyg editor I can use offline to create rather long wiki pages. I'm using Mediawiki. The documents are long, not complex, and have to be prepared offline.

Right now I'm just using a text editor (gedit or kate) with highlighting. Problem is, when I'm trying to concentrate on content, it's very distracting to have all the plaintext formatting in the way.

I have two problems with fckeditor. One is Really Dumb : How do I use it just locally, offline, on my own computer? I installed the editor (+ dependencies) via synaptic. I have Firefox 3. I should be able to run it, but nowhere does it say how to start it! Only how to use it.

The editor is in /usr/share/fckeditor/ but the files themselves only have read-write permission (owner, which is root) or read permissions (everyone else). Do the .php or .py files need to be executable?

Two: Am I barking up the wrong tree? What I really want is a wysiwyg offline editor for Mediawiki. Is there such a thing?

Wed, 12/17/2008 - 16:00

bsinatra

Joined: 10/08/2007

Posts: 13

Re: How do I use fckeditor offline??

It is not meant to operate that way, you could do it if you set up a local web server on your machine. but it would be easier to use something like this:

http://kompozer.net/

Sat, 12/27/2008 - 17:04

quixote

Joined: 16/12/2008

Posts: 3

Re: How do I use fckeditor offline??

Thanks for the tip! I used Nvu quite a bit over a year ago, but then I had some bugginess problems (don't remember what, at this point) and got out of the habit. I'll have to try KompoZer.

Sat, 12/27/2008 - 18:15

quixote

Joined: 16/12/2008

Posts: 3

Re: How do I use fckeditor offline??

I installed Kompozer and started looking around. I see previews for html, but I don't see anything for wiki formatting. Ah well. Maybe in the next release. I put in a feature request .