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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The ones I still really miss are "It's All Text", which could open what you were typing into a text box on a site in the editor of your choice, and when you saved the editor content, it got input to the text box, and Dict, which would let you look up a highlighted word in a Dict server and return a definition.
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And Lo! There
is an "It's All Text" replacement that works in FF 57.
withExEditor appears to provide the needed functionality.
Unfortunately, setting it up is non-trivial. The way Firefox 57 works, there needs to be a local host that will run the editor, and communicate with the site you are trying to use it on. Getting the local host requires installing and configuring
node.js, then installing and configuring withExEditor to tell it the browser you use and the editor you want it to invoke. (In my case, the editor is
Notepad2-mod, which is configured to replace Windows Notepad.)
Once configured, it appears to cover the bases. I
did have to modify my configuration, to tell it to include the file name to be edited on the editor command line, and I think that setting ought to be the default.
But it appears to work as desired. (And this reply was composed in it. Ctrl-Shift-u invokes the editor. and away I go.)
Now, if someone will just craft a replacement for Dict...
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Dennis