use Perl

• ask and ye shall (Score:1)

  by tinman (2063)

  receive [extensionsmirror.nl]. *grin*. Add the domain to your plugin whitelist or it won't work (and sometimes just silently refuses to install).
  • Re:ask and ye shall (Score:1)

    by cog (4665)

    OK, with this I managed to install it and configure it...

    Now I just have to figure out why a command that works on the command line isn't working within mozex :-) (no, it's not path related)

    Thanks, tinman :-)
    • Re:ask and ye shall (Score:1)

      by cog (4665)

      Figured out :-)
• Which functionality exactly do you use? (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  I've been refactoring that extension for a long time now (part of the reason being that I started without any clue about extension development). I kind of want to drop some features I don't particularly like, but I'm not sure how useful or not they are to others.

  So I wonder, which parts of MozEX do you use?
  • Re:Which functionality exactly do you use? (Score:1)

    by cog (4665)

    So you did it! Thanks! :-)

    I edit text areas with it all the time. I also use it to view the source with vim.

    A while back I was also using it to send emails... and that's it :-)

    Editing a text area with vim can be really really helpful, you know? :-)
    • Re:Which functionality exactly do you use? (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      Yeah, that's its primary functionality of course and that's what I use it for, all the time.

      What I am thinking of getting rid of is all the link handling stuff; that can all be done without an extension, although it requires about:config hacking and external glue scripts to make it work well.

      I would like the extension to do one thing and do it well and I don't feel like supporting all that extraneous code for the link handlers. Plus it hugely complicates the configuration dialog and bleah.
  • Re:Which functionality exactly do you use? (Score:1)

    by cog (4665)

    I started without any clue about extension development

    Is there a guide of some sort about this?
    • Re:Which functionality exactly do you use? (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      I wrote up some tips [plasmasturm.org] on what you need to know. Since then I've also found Duff's blog post about it [orablogs.com].