Here's an item that bugs me a lot, and there is probably not any solution, but just maybe...
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.
Is there a way to make this easier? Like hit a key and the editor opens a window with the text. When I close (and save) the results are returned to my browser window, and so am I.
I suppose there might be some hack where I could select text, hit a keystroke (or something) and have the select text appear in the editor, then if the default were to select all+copy when closing the window, ...
Anyway, some better solution to this problem would be really great.
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. (By the way, I haven't used webdav to any extent really.)
This whole thought-stream was launched when I started looking at wikis again. I love the ease-of-use of wikis, EXCEPT for editing in HTML textarea blocks.
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).
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:05:03 +0100, Allan Odgaard allan@macromates.com wrote:
There's a service which simplifies it a little: http://macromates.com/textmate/files/TextMate.service.zip
Allan, once upon a time you reported that you thought you'd figured out how to incorporate this service into TextMate itself (rather than it being a separate thing to install).
Any news on that?
On Dec 15, 2004, at 1:44, Chris Brierley wrote:
Allan, once upon a time you reported that you thought you'd figured out how to incorporate this service into TextMate itself (rather than it being a separate thing to install).
Any news on that?
Yes, turned out it wasn't as simple after all. I still have it on my list as something I'd like to do, but it requires some experimenting.
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