Build a better TEXT EDITOR!!! [LWN.net]

Build a better TEXT EDITOR!!!

Posted Feb 4, 2004 23:58 UTC (Wed) by alonzo (guest, #2770)
In reply to: Build a better TEXT EDITOR!!! by tracyreed
Parent article: Building A Better Browser (Forbes)

vi?!!! Probably nobody writing browser code uses vi. But that would sure make my life easier! Everytime I have to use a wysiwyg editor I screw everything up. Being able to choose vi as my browser editor would be great!

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Build a better TEXT EDITOR!!!

Posted Feb 5, 2004 12:54 UTC (Thu) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link]

I would abandon every browser using something that works like vi. I can't even do simple editing using vi - that may be why I hate it. Loving joe though, I don't need any other text-mode editor.
Anyways, I love having GUI text editor for the real complex tasks. Integrating something like Kate into the Mozilla text widget would make it even bigger in codesize than it is (and yes, it's too big already, come and ask about it on irc.mozilla.org) - and we're currently caring about reducing codesize, not bloating the product even more.

If you want to have an even better widget there, feel free to work on it though, it's open source, remember? And we'll be happy about everyone actively doing additional work anywhere in our great Mozilla projects.