How have I wished a million times that I could edit that text in the textarea using vim! And how have I used the painful copy-paste to get it done! And how joyful it was for me when I read Amit Agarwal’s post about the useful Its All Text extension. Freakitude has a nice gif illustrating the use.
After installing it, I have a small edit button below all multiline textboxes, called textareas. It is light and dimmed, but is visible once you hover over the box. This small button will save a lot of trouble for you. You can use any text editor by configuring it in the preferences. This is better than JSVI. I used to write a lot of my blog posts in vim and then copy paste in the web interface. Gone are those days. I am having more vim and Firefox fun. How do you think I wrote this post! It is going to be much easier to make tweaks to code like CSS and HTML files. In spite of a wider choice of browsers, these plugins make it very tough to leave Firefox, or Swiftfox.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I sort of guessed that you’ll like this extension since you are a Vi fan.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
It is so good that it has brought me back to Firefox