I have landed some refactoring of the editor that allows us to build a
plaintext-only editor. Embedding folks may be interested in this. The
plaintext-only library does not include the editorShell, so it is
unsuitable for any client that wants composer or mail-compose. But it
has everything you need for url-bars, text areas, text fields, etc.
On linux and windows, you can build the smaller library by lighting the
appropriate environment variable. See the makefile in
mozilla/editor/base for your platform of choice. On the mac there is a
separate target in the IDE project file, editor.mcp. It is possible to
run Viewer against this smaller library. All the text widgets will work.
The plaintext-only library is less than 50% of the size of the full
editor library on each platform. I had to touch a lot of code for this
landing, so please report any editor regressions my way.
Thanks to kin for extensive testing/reviews and windows/linux build love.
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