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Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by dlitvakb » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:07 PM UTC

profeta wrote: post #55

jhasse wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's i3. But it's Linux anyway, why would you be interested if you have to use Mac?

i'm a moron. noted. i guess i saw something that reminded me of the cocoa/whatever-osx-UI on the the screenshots. but looking closer now, there is nothing other than atom and chrome, both have custom inconsistent UIs that do not hint the OS they are running on. you are right, it can be linux or anything else.

You can use something like Divvy (Paid - on AppStore) or Spectacle (Free - https://www.spectacleapp.com/) to achieve the same effect

I personally use Divvy because Spectacle didn't exist when I first started using mac

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by nickysielicki » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:09 PM UTC

I'd be more interested in a generic solution that makes a live mapping from webkit internals to files via FUSE.

(I have zero experience with webkit to know if this is a reasonable undertaking.)

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by JoshTriplett » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:10 PM UTC

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #10

I use this Firefox add-on to edit text in gvim from time to time: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/... But I don't see the advantage of editing text areas with atom, which presents an extremely similar text editing experience compared to the experience the text area already provided. On the other hand, moving to Vim to edit a particuarly long comment or what have you makes more sense becaus…

I use and recommend It's All Text as well, but Atom is a programmer's editor, and if someone prefers Atom as their editor of choice, they'd find it a massive improvement over a browser textarea.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by omaranto » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:11 PM UTC

profeta wrote: post #40

bduerst wrote: post #29

Damn, I thought this meant Atom support on Chrome OS :( There still isn't a good text editor that does regex find and regex replace (caret doesn't).

if you can't install/compile vim on your computer it is not a computer

I don't know if I could install Vim on my father's Chromebook (probably yes), but I do know it came preinstalled! That makes it a computer too, right?

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by niij » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:11 PM UTC

jakub_g wrote: post #19

Myztiq wrote: post #17

The only real use-case I can see here is getting access to multi-select, and find/replace utilities, or perhaps other custom shortcuts you might use. Overall a neat little trick. Atom is not my usual editor of choice but I could see a few small potential use cases.

I usually copy-paste longish things to the text editor (or at least to clipboard) to avoid data loss in case the webapp crashed / browser crashed / HTTP request failed / I mistakenly pressed backspace when out of the textarea (which navigates to previous page) It happens rarely but when it happens, it hurts.

Try the Lazarus extension. It keeps a history of form fields. It saved my butt more than once.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by sridca » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:15 PM UTC

bgar wrote: post #56

sridca wrote: post #15

It would be even cooler if HTML input can be edited using markdown source. For eg., you compile an email in Gmail, but edit it using Markdown in Atom (or whatever editor); the final content gets rendered as HTML. Effectively you are sending HTML email that was composed and edited in Markdown.

Try this: http://markdown-here.com/

I have tried this extension in Chrome; it doesn't quite do what I'm getting it, as the extension converts the markdown once and doesn't let you edit it afterwards.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by tedmiston » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:16 PM UTC

tuvistavie wrote: post #37

tedmiston wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be so great to have that for Jira and its obscure formatting conventions.

Totally agree. I am going to give it a try. Thank you for the idea.

Awesome! I'm happy to help test - email in profile.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by boksiora » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:24 PM UTC

nice work :) i will use it

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by mankash666 » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:24 PM UTC

tedmiston wrote: post #30

mankash666 wrote: post #6

The screenshots demo-ing this tool in use shows the native WYSIWYG editors in the respective sites to be more feaure rich and intuitive. This seems like a fun programming exercise with little real utility.

The utility is the lower cognitive overhead of having all the UI that you don't need hidden, responsiveness, and having more lines of text visible on one screen. Similar reasons one might use WriteRoom.

I'm certain WriteRoom serves a niche. If it indeed was such a pain point in, WriteRoom should've achieved the scale of a .. Evrernote? Just saying that as developers, we tend to believe that our own little quirks is how everyone on the planet likes things to be.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by radarsat1 » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 11:28 PM UTC

It would be cool if browsers simply created easy-to-find temporary files on disk that mirror the contents of the text box, and can be copied or edited externally. Then you could use whatever editor you want, or simply copy the file to edit later. Hm.. maybe a FUSE filesystem could be used for this.