Just what I've always wanted...

[mdlbear]

It's All Text! is the Firefox add-on I've always wanted but was too lazy to write. Whenever your cursor is inside a multiline text box (the <textarea> tag, in other words), it shows a little "edit" button just below the lower right-hand corner. Clicking that button pops up a copy of your favorite editor (GNU Emacs, in my case), editing a temporary file containing whatever was in the text box. When you save, it goes back in the box.

From the ikiwiki tips page, by way of Don Marti (don_marti).

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[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Exploring one of my worst ever "funny" ideas, I set its default editor to /usr/bin/oowriter and its default extension to .html. Then by assigning a html filter to oowriter's I/O, weird and wonderful things can be made to happen in LJ comment blocks. I shall refrain from providing examples. :-)

But, yes, that's a neat plug-in.