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Friday January 06, 2006
12:07 PM
OSX Hacks
Tired of dealing with writing long messages in a <textarea> on a web page?
Usually, I'll copy out whatever draft I'm working on, fire up a new terminal window, paste the text into vim, edit it, and copy it back.
Copying it back is something of a pain at times. If it's a long bit of text that doesn't fit into a window, I scroll to the top, and copy it back in chunks. About as smooth as coarse grit sandpaper.
Of course, there is a better way -- just filter the entire buffer through pbcopy, and paste it back in one big chunk. (In vim, that translates into ESC H !G pbcopy <CR>)
(If only this hack would work as smoothly in Win* or my Ubuntu config...)
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Firefox Extensions (Score:1)
There are some Firefox extensions which make this even easier. Currently I'm using ViewSourceWith [sourceforge.net], which doesn't just do what it says but also provides a way of loading the contents of text areas into external editors.
You right-click in a text area and select a menu item to fire up the editor, then save stuff in the editor and it gets reflected in the browser. I'm using it on Linux with Vim (
gvim).Note also that the Vim keystroke
Honly moves to the top line currently being displayed; to move to the fs/pbcopy/xclip/ (Score:1)
I just tried ":w !/usr/X11R6/bin/xclip".
Add "-selection clipboard" to the command line if you prefer ^V to middle click.