On 6/27/07, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now I wish I were using vi instead of the crappy editor that Thunderbird comes with. I still don't understand why all of these applications (thunderbird, firefox, etc.) or the widget toolkit they were built with don't implement a GUI widget in which you can embed your favorite text editor. So many coders use Firefox now and do so much writing in it (blogs, online bug tracking, etc) but they all have to suffer with lame text editing capabilities. Sure, there are plugins and extensions you can get but they all seem to require an extra step of somehow activating your preferred editor once the app has already fired up the lame editor and they require you to have the plugin installed in the first place.
I just found an extension that seems to work pretty well. It can be found at http://globs.org Took me a couple minutes to snarf it cuz the download tool seems b0rk3d, but once I got it configured "xterm -e vim" like the FAQ said to, it worked just as advertised. It pops up an xterm with the To:, From:, and Subject: lines and a line of demarcation for the body text. Slick as can be. Once I finished, I hit ':X' and all my work went right into the compose window of Thunderbird. Just grab the External Editor extension and go for it. For easier downloading you can wget it here: http://globs.org/file/exteditor_v073.xpi -Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
