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
Google for mozex. I’ve had good mileage using emacs to edit textareas in Firefox with it.
Ah heck, I googled for ya:
http://mozex.mozdev.org/
ps. Hope your shoulders get better…
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.
LOL vim LOL
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…)