Ever tried editing your Blogger Templates or Wordpress Themes in Firefox ? Or a Wikpedia story that spans several paragraphs ? Editing large blocks of text in Firefox is both confusing and dangerous because it's so easy to make mistakes.
Here's an extremely useful Firefox extension for you called "It's all text" - though the name offers no hint about the purpose of the extension, it enables you to edit or write text in Firefox using any external text editing software like Notepad, GVim, etc.
It's-all-text extension adds a small "edit" button near the textboxes in Firefox and if you click that button, the existing text opens up inside your favorite text editor.
You can edit the text and then close the editor - your text will automatically appear in the Firefox textbox. [think round-trip editing]. There will be a short Ajax style glow to hint that the text has changed.
The extension will be very handy for editing long blogger templates, Wikipedia entries, composing new blog posts in Wordpress web editor, writing blog comments, editing files in Web based FTP programs or replying to forum threads in Internet message boards.
Geeks may configure Firefox with Vi or Emacs while others may configure it with Notepad, UltraEdit or other text editors. Highly recommended.
It's All Text | Developer Website | Thanks FreakitudeFind this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-notepad-vim-or-any-text-editor-with.html
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Reader Comments
Interesting idea BUT when I installed it a few minutes ago, after restarting Firefox (2.0.0.4 ubuntu-feisty), all my tabs were gone/forgotten and I removed it immediately :-(
Maybe there is a conflict with one of my other add-ins I'm using.
Written on 12/6/07 1:52 AM
I installed this but didn't know how to set up which editor to use.. I didn't know where to find the .exe for it..
I know.. I'm not geeky enough..
Written on 14/6/07 2:26 AM
@Ladybanana, which text editor you want to use?
if you want to use the notepad go to
C:\WINDOWS and you'll find it there
if you want to use any other that you've installed, its most likely to be at C:\Program Files under the folder of the software name or company that make the software.
wish you luck with that.
cheers!
Written on 14/6/07 3:09 PM