Re: newbie install
On 22Feb2009 10:20, James Freer <jessejazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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.
I use this extensively. It's great for things like wiki editing too.
I use this (terribly me-centric) wrapper for popping up a
terminal-with-a-vim for ItsAllText!
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/iat-edit
In the middle is "e", which small script meaning roughly:
xterm -e $EDITOR filename...
(Adjust preferred terminal etc).
Most of the wrapping is environment setup (preamble) and stashing the
edited file text in an archive (postamble) because I frequently want a
big edit to be recoverable in wiki edits, through UI errors on my part.
| > ... and mozex which does almost exactly the same but also adds other
| > external program facilities to Firefox.
Yah. I started with this and moved to itsalltext.
On X11 systems you can tell Firefox to use mutt for mailto: links via the
Gnome configuration panel; you'll need a small script to go:
xterm -e mutt blah...
| 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.
You have a choice here. There's an extension somewhere to make Fixfore
pass all mailto: links to GMail's web interface. Alas, I forget its
name.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
We really don't care what APIs Microsoft publishes - the only thing
that matters to us is what APIs are used by the applications we want
to support. In fact, Wine only implements about half of the Windows
APIs. Now some (like my wife) might argue that's because we're just lazy,
but the truth is that over half of the Windows APIs have never been used!
- Jeremy of Wine
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/17/0057241&mode=nested