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"John Sullivan" <> wrote in message
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> "Ben Bullock" <> 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.

Ben Bullock wrote:
> 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...editor_support

> From: "Ben Bullock" <>
>
> "dorayme" <> wrote in message

>>> From: "Ben Bullock" <>

>>> which would then pop up the user's own favourite text editor to edit the
>>> file in question?
>>>
>>> I know it's possible to have a text editing window on a browser screen,
>>> but
>>> I'd like to be able to send the file to a text editor.
>>
>>
>> In the iCab browser for Macs, there is a setting that enables all the
>> source
>> code to be viewed (and consequently saved) in any text editor you have on
>> board. It will also go directly to the file that powers the browser if it
>> is
>> on your computer so you can change it. I don't know if you can do this in
>> other browsers or on other platforms.
>
> Thanks for your answer. I'm not necessarily thinking of editing the HTML
> source code of the page in question.
>
> Anyway thank you for some more insight. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac
> though so I can't try it out.
>

Seems I misunderstood your question! But really it is me who should be
thanking you for the opportunity to try to help another human sufferer...

dorayme

In article <BF0A6451.14EB9%>,
dorayme <> wrote:

> Seems I misunderstood your question! But really it is me who should be
> thanking you for the opportunity to try to help another human sufferer...

You're only suffering from OS9. I was a kindred spirit until the Mini
came out Alas, I don't think iCab is supported, but Safari is great
without the benefits that iCab has. But it has other benefits that will
make you smile (speed and in most cases, better implemented conformity
to web standards implemented now). iCab is a great instant critic but
lousy implementor. And their base is shrinking.

Mac ruleZ! (index and little fingers on both hands pointing to each
other on up and down angles to the ecliptic with the thumbs pointing
generally up) Nuff said, YO!

leo

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