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Re:Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field by michaelmrose on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:17PM (#9247684)
While awesome in theory, it seems pretty easy in generic pentadactyl to focus a text field, hit ctrl+i, and have an instance of vim where after you :wq the contents of the buffer will be the contents of the text field.

Also compared to a real vim window this lags terribly.

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Re:Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field by skymt on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:21PM (#9247705)
An extension called It's All Text! provides the same feature without Pentadactyl's total UI overhaul.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/

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Re:Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field by edwintorok on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:33PM (#9247739)
"It's All Text!" plugin is great for editing wiki pages, or anything with a large amount of text in it.
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Re:Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field by deltaprotocol on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:27PM (#9247726)
But only if you use gvim or macvim. I've been using wasavi (http://appsweets.net/wasavi/) and so far it works very well for me. And I just love the sound it makes.
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Re:Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field by dbbolton on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:21PM (#9247703)
With the added bonus of your already-configured Vim + plugins.
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