Re: newbie install
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:45:50AM +0000, James Freer wrote:
> 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?
>
You can of course use a GUI editor which eliminates the requirement
for an xterm at all, e.g. I have:-
xvile -geometry 200x60+200+200 %t
For vim/gvim simply put 'gvim' instead of 'xvile' above, I assume it
will understand the standard X "-geometry".
--
Chris Green