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Re:Vim Anywhere by throw_away on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:06PM (#16396254)
It's for things like web forms or other GUI apps, for whom $VISUAL is not meaningful.
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Re:Vim Anywhere by bch on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:14PM (#16396359)
A different tact (for some cases) to the same end: use elinks[0] and in an active <textarea>, press shift-ctrl-T to pop up your favourite editor[1]. This works for gmail, for example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi

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Re:Vim Anywhere by jamesgeck0 on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:43PM (#16396682)
I can't recommend that. Elinks doesn't verify SSL certs when connecting to HTTPS sites. It hasn't had a release in five years. It also has worse support for web standards than IE6.
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Re:Vim Anywhere by bch on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:08PM (#16396909)
Huh, TIL. I think I actually don’t care about any of that except for the cert verification, which is a Big Deal. Thx for the reply!
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Re:Vim Anywhere by shakna on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:35PM (#16397596)
Lynx doesn't have as good standard support, but it is still semi-active (2017-07-10 (2.8.9dev.16)) over at InvisibleIsland[0], and can be compiled with OpenSSL support. (Windows installers require OpenSSL by default).

[0] http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html

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