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Another reason is that it spawns a text editor. Typing emails in a text widget without proper editing capabilities can be irritating.
by lottin 11y ago
Another reason is that it spawns a text editor. Typing emails in a text widget without proper editing capabilities can be irritating.
- icebraining 11y agoIn Firefox, you can use It's All Text! to edit the current text area in a proper editor. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/its-all-text/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
- grayclhn 11y agoThat works less and less as more websites offer "improved" text editing capabilities through javascript.
- necessity 11y agoPentadactyl also allows you to edit input fields with any editor (and many other things): http://5digits.org/nightlies http://5digits.org/nightlies Same goes for vimperator, of which Pentadactyl is a fork.
- Steltek 11y agoI'm rapidly returning to mutt from gmail because the new gmail compose widget is so bloody awful. I use Firefox-Aurora and the compose widget is sluggish, buggy, and the faux-window manager is a terrible paradigm. I'm fairly sure this isn't my aging brain calcifying on me and turning me into "grrr, I hate change": messages not sending when requested (or sending twice), line breaks not rendering, and a generally unresponsive UI. As a bonus, I can start toying with GPG for real now (for all of my friends and family that will never use GPG?).
- TsiCClawOfLight 11y agoThunderbird and, I think, Kmail allow you to specify an external editor (probably vim, Emacs users would use something inside Emacs)
- foldr 11y agoCopy+paste? It's rare that I write an email that's more than a couple of paragraphs, but when I need to, it only takes a second to copy the text over from a real editor.