Mar
26
2009
It’s all text!
Just to share with you something I’ve stumbled upon.
A Firefox plugin that allows you to use your favourite text editor
for filling up the text areas in a page. It can be found at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125
This post, for example, was typed in Vim!
The question I always made to myself and never dared to ask:
Are you aware of any plans to provide Konqueror with such a plugin/feature?
Typing textareas in browsers sucks, and I usually have to write them on my editor, then copy and paste.
Comment by Piojo — 26 March 2009 @ 14:06
I have no idea. You could make a wishlist for Konq devs to use the Kate’s text editor component for text-areas in HTML. (Kate’s editor has some rudimentary Vim support, and is being actively worked on)
Comment by Ivan Čukić — 26 March 2009 @ 14:09
Or you could just use Vimperator.
http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator
Comment by Hans — 26 March 2009 @ 15:13
@Ivan Čukić:
I think it already exists:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37146
Comment by Christian Müller — 26 March 2009 @ 16:56
@Christian Müller: A wish for integration of an *external* editor, that is.
Comment by Christian Müller — 26 March 2009 @ 17:16
@Hans: Yes, I know of Vimperator, but it is a bit too much
Comment by Ivan Čukić — 26 March 2009 @ 17:23
I second the recommendation of Vimperator.
It’s really awesome and provides the “It’s All Text” functionality with Ctrl-I (and provides things like “Ctrl-A” in normal textareas, too).
Also, it provides bypassing (Ctrl-Z) and your mouse will still work, if it’s “too much” at the beginning.
Comment by Daniel Hahler — 27 March 2009 @ 18:27