2009/2/22 Chris G <c...@isbd.net>: > 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 >
Chris Many thanks for that. That did work but i changed it as i like vim [with no menu] as opposed to gvim. I like a bare screen! gnome-terminal --hide-menubar --geometry 200x60+200+200 -e vim %t I wanted to learn about the syntax for geometry but man gnome-terminal just had the following "X geometry specification (see "X" man page), can be specified". man "X"? no entry thanks james once per window to be opened.