Comments on: Firefox add on for text editing

By: george.w

george.w — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:32:37 +0000

OK, let’s try this out on a Windoze machine. There’s a little button and when I click on it (having set the preferences), Notepad++ comes up. Now to hit “save”.

And now for an update. I’ll hit “save” again.

Probably set it up with GEdit on my Ubuntu machines. Shiny!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:47:37 +0000

not to be too much of a downer, but I would prefer to continue using copy/paste when I want to type enough to want a real editor

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:38:53 +0000

Handy, but not quite seamless with Twitter or bit.ly. In both cases it populates the textarea but doesn’t seem to update the “number of characters remaining” until you click inside the box.

By: Jason Thibeault

Jason Thibeault — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:56:24 +0000

Hmm… I dunno. Handy for doing proper editing, I guess. Syntax highlighting on HTML stuff. I’ll try it the next time I write up a big post, though WordPress’ built-in TinyMCE is actually pretty good.

By: Erp

Erp — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:47:42 +0000

It’s all text is very useful (admittedly I use it on a mac with emacs not on linux).

Emma

By: Dan J

Dan J — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:41:17 +0000

You know, I think I could get used to this. Just installed the plugin, and editing comment using gedit now. I usually have a gedit session open for various reasons anyway, so this might come in quite handy.