Takaaki Kato asked:

Would you mind sharing how to set up in that way? I installed Mozex1.9.5, and set "/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/MacOS/ TextMate" as my text editor in "Textarea" tab of the Mozex preferences. I also set ⌘⌥E for hotkey.

Try setting this to be the path to your "mate" command, with the -w and %t commands: for me this means that the "Text Editor" command reads

/Users/pmccann/bin/mate -w %t

and I've set the temp file (in the "General" tab) to live in my chunk of /tmp

/tmp/503

Watch out: sometimes you get two choices when using the key command for a text field. Don't pick the hidden one (thunk!) or you'll be scratching your head like I was for a few minutes.

Cheers, Paul

On 3/13/07, Steve Lianoglou lists@arachnedesign.net wrote:

Hi Pat,

The Mozex extension has been working perfectly for me. I even have it set to trigger on cmd-ctrl-e, in some ways it's even better because if I'm editing a textarea in firefox and fore some reason have to pop back to firefox and change the focus to a different tab (than the one I'm editing in textmate), going back to textmate and incrementally saving my work still works.

http://mozex.mozdev.org/

Hope that helps, -steve

Hey Steve,

Thanks a lot for this, looks really sweet. Definitely better than "it's all text." My only gripe is that it doesn't open an editor for the current text area, but rather gives me a drop down box with a list of names of text areas. If I've got my cursor in a particular text area then I want to edit that one obviously...any ideas how I make that happen?

Pat

Steve Lianoglou wrote:

Hey,

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Thanks a lot for this, looks really sweet. Definitely better than "it's all text." My only gripe is that it doesn't open an editor for the current text area, but rather gives me a drop down box with a list of names of text areas.

Hah! I've never noticed that before .. at least you can select the named message box w/ the numbers so you don't have to move your fingers from the keyboard :-)

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If I've got my cursor in a particular text area then I want to edit that one obviously...any ideas how I make that happen?

I agree ... I don't really know how to make this happen -- you could probably send an email to the developer to see if there's a quick hack or something to get it to work that way.

Possibly there is no straightforward way of getting the textarea that currently has focus when writing extensions - there isn't in JS, to my knowledge.

I faked it in a userscript by setting a CSS property on :focus and then looking for that property with JS - see get_focused_form() over at http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/1595. Might want to suggest that to the developer, if finding the focused form is why there is no such functionality.

On 3/14/07, Steve Lianoglou lists@arachnedesign.net wrote:

Hi Pat,

The Mozex extension has been working perfectly for me. I even have it set to trigger on cmd-ctrl-e, in some ways it's even better because if I'm editing a textarea in firefox and fore some reason have to pop back to firefox and change the focus to a different tab (than the one I'm editing in textmate), going back to textmate and incrementally saving my work still works.

http://mozex.mozdev.org/

This does seem to rock, except that when I close the Textmate window, a new version of Firefox trys to open, tells me that only one copy can be open at a time, and then goes away, and my changes are lost.

Does anyone have a clue as to what I'm doing wrong?

Ed