Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing

Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by necubi on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @02:48AM (#1594038)

If you're on a mac and use Safari, 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.

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by imurray on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @03:47AM (#1594138)

For firefox there is "It's all text!"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/

(and mozex, which I used to use before that.)

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by proee on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @11:54AM (#1595038)

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

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by joelmichael on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @06:06AM (#1594314)

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.

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by jcdreads on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @08:28AM (#1594472)

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

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by X-Istence on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @06:23AM (#1594333)

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

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by sophacles on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @08:55AM (#1594524)

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.

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by onedognight on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @10:19AM (#1594738)

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.

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by pohl on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @11:47AM (#1595005)

Should be "ESC k was originally...", right?

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by mortenjorck on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @10:23AM (#1594751)

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.

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by mhansen on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @04:51AM (#1594219)

Anything for Chrome on Linux?

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by hsuresh on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @05:11AM (#1594240)

There is Edit with Emacs extension - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ljobjlafonikaiip...

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by almost on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @10:14AM (#1594717)

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...

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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by Naga on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @04:38PM (#1596025)

Vimperator does this, too.

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