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Bug 363421 - Option to use an external editor for text fields
Option to use an external editor for text fields
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Interface
3.20.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-10-19 14:25 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2018-08-03 19:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Sam Morris 2006-10-19 14:25:55 UTC 
It would be useful to be able to right click a text field and choose an option such as "edit in text editor". This would allow the text field's contents to be edited in the GNOME default text editor.

Similarly to the functionality of the Mozex Mozilla extension.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-10-19 22:42:01 UTC 
I'm not opposed to the request (maybe as an extension), but how would this be a big improvement over simply opening a note or gedit, type your text, drag it to the web form and submit it?
Comment 2 Sam Morris 2006-10-19 23:01:57 UTC 
A few reasons, as they occur to me:

I don't have a button on my panel to launch the text editor (gvim in my case); I'd prefer not to add one because I really don't have the room, and I never run a text editor directly to create a new file (I always run 'gvim newfile' in a terminal).

Launching a text editor, then copying the text to the editor is slower/less convenient than having the desired text opened directly in the text editor. Similarly, saving and closing the text editor is faster/more convenient than selecting the text, copying & pasting or dragging & dropping it back, and then closing the editor anyway.

Basically this feature would optimise and streamline a common operation, and I think that adding a single menu item to a text field's popup menu is an inobtrusive way to do it.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-08-03 19:18:05 UTC 
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