Ciao!

Thanks for the feedback. I’m enjoying talking to you on IM…

Yeah, it’d be really nice to have something like that. The problem is that shells and the exec() function on different platforms work differently. FF doesn’t expose execl().

I’ve been thinking of adding an advanced option or something where you are assumed to know how your local system works. That way people who don’t know (or don’t care) can just use the current behavior.

The letting people choose corners is a good idea. I’m wanting to change the way the edit button appears and disappears anyway. It gets in the way sometimes.

Thanks again.

Ciao!

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!

Do you mean, the file in the editor would be updated from the browser window? That is, it would be synchronized in both directions?

What happens when a change in the browser conflicts with a change in the editor?

If one (the editor or the browser) was given priority, then it’s not so hard.

Do you have a use case?

Ciao!

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.

Yeah, this is a problem.

I’m thinking about making the button disappear when the mouse isn’t over a textarea and the textarea isn’t in focus.

So in your case, you just click outside the textarea someplace (to remove the focus) and the edit button goes away entirely, leaving you free to click the button underneath.

Ciao!

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?

Unfortunately, FireFox does not report back when a process exits. Otherwise, I could fix a problems I have to work around. So the original way you invoked gvim was correct. You don’t need the -f.

Regarding the temp files, they should go away either: when the browser exits or (failing that) after aging a week (I think it was a week. Maybe a day.)

I don’t delete them faster because you can keep your editor open and revisit the same page and make changes by editing the old file. Assuming that each edit doesn’t get a new URL (depends on the site).

Ciao!

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.

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!