It’s All Text! v0.6+

Hi,

I just discovered this plugin and it’s very useful to me. But I noticed one of the bugs you think you fixed “* Fixed the context menu jumping all over the place.” isn’t really fixed at all for me. When I right-click the edit button, the outline of the menu appears in it’s correct place for a moment, then moves to the right-hand edge of the screen, then to the lower-right corner where it stays put and draws completely. Now a show-stopper but it sure is annoying.

Thanks for such a useful extension!

docwhat, thanks for your response of 2007-07-12. I downloaded wget and looked at what content our server was returning in response to the different queries. Up to the end of the first section, there was nothing different between what was returned for the query “http://our.internal.wiki/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_article_in_question&action=edit” and “http://our.internal.wiki/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_article_in_question&action=edit&section=1″, but when I give these URLs to the browser, the first one results in the popup I described being displayed, while the second one works normally, bringing up an edit box for the section.

By the way, soon after I reported that this works normally in IE, it started misbehaving there, too. If I try the first URL, IE pops up a dialog that says “Do you want to save this file, or find a program online to open it?”

Since others in my office do not have this problem, I think that I’ve somehow broken the setup of my computer. I do remember playing about with Registry settings in an attempt to make the .php problem go away.

In any case, I’m now pretty sure it’s not a problem with IAT.

Hi,
Like the plug-in, but is not quite what I am looking for.
A common problem with text entry fields is that you get an error the moment you submit.

But with this plug-in, if you press the edit button again you still loose the text you typed.
The specific case I am talking about is adding comments using the Jira bug tracker from http://www.atlassian.com.

A solution would be not to replace an existing temporary file by an empty one. Just open the existing one.
You can always clear it in the editor you are using.

I really like the add-on, but I’ve found that it messes up some “special” characters (such as the em dash, — ). If I copy the text from the text editor and manually paste it into the web site, those characters copy in just fine. If I save the text-editor file and let your add-on do the text insertion on the page, those characters get replaced with a funky reverse-question-mark-set-in-a-diamond. Obviously, copying and pasting from the text editor is 2/3 of what this extension is supposed to avoid.

Otherwise, I’m happy with it. Keep up the good work, please.

Sorry—now I see that in the FAQ. I don’t know what character set my editor uses by default (or how to change its default), but I did set a quick shortcut to change the current working document to UTF-8, and that does the trick. Carries those across beautifully.

OK, now this extension rocks.

Excellent extension. Thank you very much for it!
PS: I do like the yellow animation feature a lot. That guy that wants an option to take it away must surely be joking.

Hi,

I am using IAT on my G4 Imac.

Os x 10.4.10

Firefox 2.0.0.6

Greasemonkey is disabled.

I installed the iat.sh shell script, and when I type

open -a /Applications/TextWrangler.app $*

Textwrangler opens right up. However, clicking on the IAT edit button does not invoke the editor. Nor does ctrl-click and selecting IAT from the contextual menu.

IAT is configured to point directly at the script:

/Users/englishdepartment/iat.sh

Any suggestions? Thank you for creating something cool for the world to use.

Also, I disabled all of my firefox plugins, restarted firefox, and it still isn’t working. Hmmm.

Hi. I set Java options to strict, installed firebug, cleared the console then tried to use IAT and no error messages were generated. None were generated in the regular console either. I’m giving up at this point after 3.5 hours, but thank you!

p.s. mozex isn’t working either.

There is a conflict with Crucible:
http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/
When editing comments the Crucible “Post” button does not work anymore while It’s All Text! is active.
You can work around it by clicking “Save As Draft” instead and then clicking “Post”.

Ok. I see what you mean. The first comment does not have the Post button blocked.
But then the “Defect” checkbox is blocked.

Login on the review site. http://demo.cenqua.com/cru/CR-11
Click “/trunk/libgaim/example/nullclientc”
Click line 17.
type some text.
Click the Defect checkbox: it does not work, the checkbox is blocked.
But you can still click on the “Defect” text.
Click “Post”
Click “Reply”
Type some text.
Now the “Post” button is blocked.

Docwhat, first of all I want to thank you for this great extension! I got
spoiled by years of using Lynx as my primary browser. Lynx had an external
editor feature build in for quite a while, but I couldn’t find a good graphical
browser with the same feature for a long time. Since I am also a vi junkie, I
always end up inserting bunch of strange character combinations in textareas,
or loosing all typed text after accidentally pressing ESC. I have just
discovered tour extension and I can finally do what I used to do in the good
old Lynx days, edit textareas using vim.

However, there is one thing missing for me. I use the vimperator extension,
which lets me for most time do all my browsing with keyboard only, but there is
no way to start the external editor it It’s all text! without a mouse. I would
really really like to add my voice to the people asking for a hotkey support.
That would make It’s all text! just perfect!

First, very nice.

A Few things
1) I’m using gvim on windows, so path is like “C:\stuff\gvim.exe”. This starts up gvim async (it forks). I thought I’d try starting it sync, with the ‘-f’ option, and see if I could detect any differences in “IAT” behavior. In particular I was wondering if it might affect the following issues. I tried “c:\stuff\gvim.exe -f”, but that failed. I guess if you want options you need to set up a script. I made a iat.cmd and put “c:\stuff\gvim.exe -f” in it, it starts the editor, but not with the right file. I don’t know the windows equivelent of “$*”. Also, when it started there was that anoying command.com window as well.

2) accumulation of temp file, any issues here? They don’t seem to go away (at least not very quickly). I thought if the editor started up sync, you would know when the editor exitted and be able to handle the delete.

3) While the editor is active, if I modify the textArea through the browser… Again, if IAT knew when the editor exited, maybe could warn that changes made would be lost.

Thanks a lot for this extension.

Cool extension – thanks!

I’m using it with TWiki which also puts buttons in almost exactly the same place as the blue edit button. Makes it tricky to hit (or even see!). Would it be possible to have an option to display the button e.g. on the left or in the middle instead of on the right?

Hi, this is an excellent plugin! Keep up the good work!

I’m a heavy vim user and also use the vimperator plugin to surf the web, thus the only thing I need to use the mouse for is to start that editor
So as many before me I once again say: Pretty please with sugar on top, add a hotkey, any hotkey, no need for it to be configurable, just add it soon.

As requested, I am putting my comments in here, as well

1) IAT should try to execute the editor within a shell, not call a binary directly. As it is, it is impossible to pass parameters to the executable. A shellscript is a working but kludgy work-around.

2) The position of the edit button should be changeable.

Thanks a lot for your script!