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Posted by Ben Bullock on 07/24/05 09:05
"John Sullivan" <john@wjsullivan.net> wrote in message
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> "Ben Bullock" <usenet@sljfaq.org> writes:
> I remember the first program I used to write messages to other people over
> something like the Internet from my Commodore 64 allowed me to choose an
> external editor with which to write those messages.
>
> Some text/console web browsers still have this ability.
>
> It's really a shame that we've taken such a huge step backward. There's
> the
> Mozedit plugin, but it takes some finessing to get it to work with newer
> versions of the browser, and IIRC the author says that they don't want to
> do
> any more development on it, because they are of the opinion that it should
> be a
> basic feature of the browser.
>
> Whatever happened to $EDITOR?
I was editing some parts of Wikipedia yesterday with tables in it and it
would have been nice to be able to use Emacs to do that. At the moment it's
possible to cut everything out of that window, then paste it to Emacs, then
cut it from Emacs and paste it back in there, but seriously editing in those
little grey boxes is annoying, I think. I'm not saying that Emacs is any
better than the little grey boxes in principle, but after thirteen or
fourteen years of it I can "work" Emacs much more easily than I can do
pointing and clicking with a mouse.
The growth of Wikipedia type editable documents, web forums, commentable
blogs, etc. on the web should make the user's choice of text editor more,
not less, relevant, perhaps? Providing a default editing window with the
browser is OK, but why not let the user choose this?
Anyway there doesn't seem to be an easy solution for my problem at the
moment, unfortunately.
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