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? thanks james
