Re:Vim Anywhere
by bo1024 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @08:18AM
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The 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.
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That'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.