Re: newbie install
2009/2/22 James Freer <jessejazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 2009/2/22 Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx>:
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39:05AM +0800, bill lam wrote:
>>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, James Freer wrote:
>>> > some v.clever person has developed an external editor addon instead of
>>> > the TB editor. It allows emacs, vi, joe, gedit or whatever to compose
>>> > emails. Should be of interest to anyone who wants to say goodbye to
>>> > the mouse while editing emails.
>>>
>>> There is also a firefox addon "it's all text" that allow using
>>> external editors for textarea editing such writing emails for
>>> webmails.
>>>
>> ... and mozex which does almost exactly the same but also adds other
>> external program facilities to Firefox.
>>
>> --
>> Chris Green
>
> I looked at mozex once and thought it was only for old versions of
> Firefox. Go to the website and you can download the FF3 version
> [mozilla a little slow on their updates]?
>
> 'ItsallText' i haven't got working somehow. For gmail one has got to
> do a bash script from what i can gather. Mozex is fine for me and is
> obviously similar to the addon for Thunderbird.
>
> What have i learnt? Keep looking periodically at all addons - they
> have put on alot this past year (don't think i've looked for a year).
>
> james
>
I've just been looking at mozex. the "xterm -e vim %t" that one enters
for the editor leaves one with a small font. I hoped "xterm -fs 16 -e
vim %t" might improve things. How can one get over this?
thanks
james