Re: [tlug] [OT] email client tips?

[Jens Oliver John <lists@example.com>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:29:27PM +0900, Travis Cardwell wrote:
> On 2014年04月25日 12:19, Jim Breen wrote:
> > I use vim all the time, of course, apart from email.  8-)}
> 
> Until recently, it was easy to use gvim with the GMail web interface via 
> the It's All Text! add-on in Firefox [1].  That stopped working, however, 
> when the developers tried to be clever and implement a custom editor 
> within the DOM.
> 
> I mention it because the It's All Text add-on is still a great way to edit 
> text in textareas with the editor of your choice; it still works great 
> with other webmail applications.

Firefox + Pentadactyl (and others, certainly) still make it possible to edit any
textfield in a seperate editor via Ctrl+i while being in insert mode. I use this
facility heavily when it comes to longer forum posts.