On Dec 14, 2004, at 20:54, Patrick Kelly wrote:
Often I'm editing text in a textarea on a web page, and I'd like to edit it in my Favorite Real Editor. Of course I can select all, copy, go to editor, open new, paste, edit, select all, copy, find browser window, select all in the textarea, paste.
There's a service which simplifies it a little: http://macromates.com/textmate/files/TextMate.service.zip
Info here: http://one.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/2004-November/001260.html
You still need to select all and then invoke the service, but you save the manual cut'n'paste stuff and opening the editor.
A specialized hack might be to have the txmt: protocol thing integrated so that the editor could fetch text via HTTP and know where to POST the text upon completion of the edit. This may be a complete waste of development effort since webdav is the right and proper solution here.
It'd still be a lot easier with the txmt://-scheme. Though the web-page would need to support it, so maybe one should choose another name for the protocol ;)
This could actually be made as a generic tool that sits between the URL request and the editor (using the existing ODB Editor Suite).