On 15/02/07, A. S. Budden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 15/02/07, Pete Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 03:31:21 +0100, Bram Moolenaar sent:
> >>Web-based editor? Why not use Vim as your editor from within
> >>Firefox? Works a treat for me! ViewSourceWith
> >><http://dafizilla.sourceforge.net/viewsourcewith/>
> >
> >Don't see something about Vim here...
> >
> Sorry, Bram, I should have mentioned that a little configuration
> is required here. I should also mention that ViewSourceWith does
> more than it says on the tin, insofar as you can do more than
> viewing source with it. It provides a menu item for you to launch
> your favourite text editor (Vim) from a textarea. I've been using
> it for a while now under Windows. I suspect that to use it under
> Linux then a shell script like the one you provided would be
> needed.
I use ViewSourceWith under Windows & Linux and it doesn't need a shell
script: it polls for changes to the file (I guess), so it doesn't
matter whether gvim is forked or not. However, It's All Text sounds
rather nice, so I may well switch to that now!
I've tried It's All Text now and the 'ergonomics' are definitely better, but
ViewSourceWith has one considerable advantage in my book: it names the
temporary text files according to the name of the website (e.g. this one
is mail.google.com_mailmsgbodyta_81171540646705.txt). This makes it
nice and easy to set Vim up to get the right file type:
au BufNewFile,BufRead mail.google.com_mailmsgbody* setf mail
It's All Text seems to just use a random string of numbers, so it's less
directly configurable.
Just my 2p's worth.
Al
