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It makes a lot of sense for big pieces of text. Heavy vim users are super fast navigating trough text. I can easily see the benefits of using this to write a l
by danilocesar 9y ago
It makes a lot of sense for big pieces of text. Heavy vim users are super fast navigating trough text.
I can easily see the benefits of using this to write a long blog/fb post.
- bo1024 9y agoThe reason I don't see the benefit is that, if a piece of text is long enough that I prefer using vim over just typing in the text box, then I probably want to actually save a copy to disk in case clicking "submit" doesn't go through. So I might as well actually use vim at that point.
- dozzie 9y agoThat's how it works (worked) with It's All Text! extension for Firefox: you set an editor (`gvim -f' in my case) and on a keybinding it's started with a file as its argument. Text area gets updated on write to the file. Normally you don't need to see or worry about the intermediate files, but in case anything goes awry, you still have the option.