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by d13hard 6341 days ago
i prefer something like itsAllText, which lets me fire up my own local editor for any textarea (using it now with emacsclient). employing a local editing tool lets me keep all my keyboard shortcuts, which is why i use one editor instead of another.

what i would really like to see is direct embedding of your choice of local editor directly into the textarea. there's no way to satisfy everyone with one editor.

but still, bespin is very cool and an improvement over plain old textareas

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what i would really like to see is direct embedding of your choice of local editor directly into the textarea.

Back in the day I was hoping that OpenDoc would provide this, but it was not to be. I wouldn't be surprised if we see some vi and emacs clones evolve out of Bespin and then some Greasemonkey scripting could use them to replace textareas.

vi clone in JavaScript: http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/

It could probably be bookmarkletized (or UserScriptified) fairly easily.