You know what would be cool?
You know what would be cool? If there was a Mozilla plug-in where I could click a button on any text field and it would pop up my favourite text editor (in my case, vim, a graphical vi clone) to edit the text field, instead of using the built-in editor.
The main reason I’d like to use my own editor is that the built-in editor is too mouse-intensive. I like vi because I can navigate with home-row keys.
The other reason is that I’m continually hitting vi command keys, which does entirely the wrong thing in Mozilla.
:wq
August 2nd, 2004 at 17:42 GMT
Google for mozex. I’ve had good mileage using emacs to edit textareas in Firefox with it.
August 2nd, 2004 at 17:43 GMT
Ah heck, I googled for ya:
http://mozex.mozdev.org/
ps. Hope your shoulders get better…
August 2nd, 2004 at 18:04 GMT
Darn, no Mac port yet. Oh well. I’m using it now on my work computer (Linux)
and it’s great.
One drawback is that vim will word-wrap my words, and of course this will
screw up HTML’s own text wrapping. Can’t have everything, I guess.
August 2nd, 2004 at 22:06 GMT
LOL vim LOL
August 7th, 2004 at 10:16 GMT
I was whining about the exact same thing last week; found mozex, decided the bit about it not working on a Mac must be a blind, and spent a couple of hours or so trying to make it work anyway.
It doesn’t.
If you find something similar for Macs though, I’d appreciate a post about it. (I’ll let you know if I find anything, of course…)