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Have you heard of the "It's All Text" Firefox extension? It copies the content of any textarea to a tempfile and opens it up in an external editor of your choice. Writes to the tempfile are copied back to the textarea. It's not quite in-browser vim, but it's pretty close. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125


Man this is awesome! I've just written this comment in vim. Thanks a lot.

Ugh... I decided to edit some more.. Hm.... ughh... more....


of course, if you use vimperator you have ctrl-i for that


There is also ViewSourceWith which allows the use of different editors.


. . . but Vimperator also Vimperates the entire browser, instead of just the text areas. Unless you're an Emacs zealot, I don't see the downside.


I think we got it by now. Unfortunately, vimperator has quite a few quirks and makes too many changes that cannot easily be undone, which is the reason why I uninstalled it and moved to VSW.


I moved in the opposite direction, from VSW (which I used heavily for a while) to Vimperator.




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