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Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by lftl »

docwhat wrote: post #58

I like this idea. As Firefox tightens its sandbox security eventually things like It's All Text! won't work anymore. I have some bugs open on the project and maybe someday I can switch from Vim to Atom comfortably. I also hear that the It's All Text! author is lazy... every time I go home to the family. ;-)

Just wanted to say thanks for It's All Text, it's been a huge timesaver for me.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by rickycook »

omaranto wrote: post #60
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…

> atom, which presents an extremely similar text editing experience compared to the experience the text area already provided Well, that's just rude. Atom is a customizable, programmable, featureful text editor. You can certainly believe that Vim is better, but you shouldn't think that on the spectrum from browser textarea to Vim, Atom is close the textarea side.

OP never said better though. I think the point was merely that vim is always a very different editing experience, where atom by default is not

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by thekevan »

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.

>HTML email that was composed and edited in Markdown

I never understood the appeal of markdown. Why would this be beneficial to you?

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by faizmokhtar »

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.

Yup, neat little trick. Also, I think this might be useful for answering or asking question on StackOverflow. Gods knows how hard it is to format your codes properly on those sweet little box.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by paulirish »

rudolf0 wrote: post #7

As others say, there's no use for this. It would be really cool to have some kind of a bidirectional WYSIWYG for web design. Edit a text field in a Chromium window managed by Atom, and it makes the same change in your template file (or even JSX file). Edit something in your template, and the change is instantly painted to the browser window. I know this wouldn't be trivial to implement, though.

I believe you were downvoted as its somewhat offtopic, but I wanted to share that your idea is implemented. https://developers.google.com/web/tools/setup/setup-workflow...

this works today, really well. give it a shot.

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