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If you're on a mac and use Safari, QuickCursor (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor) is a nice

by necubi 16y ago

If you're on a mac and use Safari, QuickCursor (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor) is a nice free input manager that solves this problem. It lets you use a real text editor (Textmate, BBEdit, Smutron amongst others) in place of a text area. Pressing a hot key opens the text opens the text in your editor, and saving copies it back. Sadly it doesn't yet work in Chrome, but the chrome team is working on it.

imurray 16y ago
For firefox there is "It's all text!" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/ (and mozex, which I used to use before that.)
- proee 16y ago
  Is there something like this for Chrome? It's the one thing I've missed making the switch from FF.
mhansen 16y ago
Anything for Chrome on Linux?
- hsuresh 16y ago
  There is Edit with Emacs extension - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ljobjlafonikaiipfkggjbhkghgicgoh https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ljobjlafonikaiip...
  - almost 16y ago
    One happy user of Edit with Emacs for Chrome right here! It should be possible to write an edit-server for other editors that work with Edit with Emacs, if you are that way inclined...
joelmichael 16y ago
If you're using Safari, you can resize the textarea, search within it, scroll the textarea by mousing over it regardless of present field focus, and use emacs key combos like Ctrl-A, E, K, and Y without any additional software.
- X-Istence 16y ago
  Ctrl + K is emacs? As far as I am aware it is available to every program on Unix through readline. See this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key#Examples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key#Examples
  - sophacles 16y ago
    It was originally an emacs binding. Then readline picked it up as part of its "emacs-style bindings". The name is not only cute, but also descriptive.
    - onedognight 16y ago
      It was originally the terminal escape sequence for kill to end of line (ESC k) which is what emacs used to emit when you typed Ctrl-k.
      - pohl 16y ago
        Should be "ESC k was originally...", right?
- jcdreads 16y ago
  By editing your ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file you can set up a gigantic subset of emacs navigation keys (including almost-but-not-quite versions of C-k and C-y) in every Cocoa text widget on your computer, including Safari textareas. Do a search for DefaultKeyBinding.dict, or just start with mine: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5431919/DefaultKeyBinding.dict http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5431919/DefaultKeyBinding.dict
mortenjorck 16y ago
Wow, I've been looking for something like that for awhile to help my CMS workflow. I searched all over, but I guess I just couldn't adequately describe what I was looking for to Google.
Naga 16y ago
Vimperator does this, too.

by necubi 16y ago

imurray 16y ago

For firefox there is "It's all text!" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/ (and mozex, which I used to use before that.)

proee 16y ago
Is there something like this for Chrome? It's the one thing I've missed making the switch from FF.

mhansen 16y ago

Anything for Chrome on Linux?

hsuresh 16y ago
There is Edit with Emacs extension - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ljobjlafonikaiipfkggjbhkghgicgoh https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ljobjlafonikaiip...
- almost 16y ago
  One happy user of Edit with Emacs for Chrome right here! It should be possible to write an edit-server for other editors that work with Edit with Emacs, if you are that way inclined...

joelmichael 16y ago

If you're using Safari, you can resize the textarea, search within it, scroll the textarea by mousing over it regardless of present field focus, and use emacs key combos like Ctrl-A, E, K, and Y without any additional software.

X-Istence 16y ago
Ctrl + K is emacs? As far as I am aware it is available to every program on Unix through readline. See this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key#Examples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key#Examples
- sophacles 16y ago
  It was originally an emacs binding. Then readline picked it up as part of its "emacs-style bindings". The name is not only cute, but also descriptive.
  - onedognight 16y ago
    It was originally the terminal escape sequence for kill to end of line (ESC k) which is what emacs used to emit when you typed Ctrl-k.
    - pohl 16y ago
      Should be "ESC k was originally...", right?
jcdreads 16y ago
By editing your ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file you can set up a gigantic subset of emacs navigation keys (including almost-but-not-quite versions of C-k and C-y) in every Cocoa text widget on your computer, including Safari textareas. Do a search for DefaultKeyBinding.dict, or just start with mine: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5431919/DefaultKeyBinding.dict http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5431919/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

mortenjorck 16y ago

Wow, I've been looking for something like that for awhile to help my CMS workflow. I searched all over, but I guess I just couldn't adequately describe what I was looking for to Google.

Naga 16y ago

Vimperator does this, too.