On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:45:50AM +0000, James Freer wrote: > 2009/2/22 James Freer <jesseja...@googlemail.com>: > > 2009/2/22 Chris G <c...@isbd.net>: > >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39:05AM +0800, bill lam wrote: > >>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, James Freer wrote: > >>> > some v.clever person has developed an external editor addon instead of > >>> > the TB editor. It allows emacs, vi, joe, gedit or whatever to compose > >>> > emails. Should be of interest to anyone who wants to say goodbye to > >>> > the mouse while editing emails. > >>> > >>> There is also a firefox addon "it's all text" that allow using > >>> external editors for textarea editing such writing emails for > >>> webmails. > >>> > >> ... and mozex which does almost exactly the same but also adds other > >> external program facilities to Firefox. > >> > >> -- > >> Chris Green > > > > I looked at mozex once and thought it was only for old versions of > > Firefox. Go to the website and you can download the FF3 version > > [mozilla a little slow on their updates]? > > > > 'ItsallText' i haven't got working somehow. For gmail one has got to > > do a bash script from what i can gather. Mozex is fine for me and is > > obviously similar to the addon for Thunderbird. > > > > What have i learnt? Keep looking periodically at all addons - they > > have put on alot this past year (don't think i've looked for a year). > > > > james > > > > I've just been looking at mozex. the "xterm -e vim %t" that one enters > for the editor leaves one with a small font. I hoped "xterm -fs 16 -e > vim %t" might improve things. How can one get over this? > You can of course use a GUI editor which eliminates the requirement for an xterm at all, e.g. I have:-
xvile -geometry 200x60+200+200 %t For vim/gvim simply put 'gvim' instead of 'xvile' above, I assume it will understand the standard X "-geometry". -- Chris Green