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k2nr / ViChrome

vi like key binds for Google Chrome
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[Feature] Allow text-areas to be edited by (g)vim #34

Closed prior closed 12 years ago

prior commented 12 years ago

This is the killer feature of vimperator that keeps me in firefox. If you added this, I'd switch in a heartbeat.

In vimperator you go into a text area or text input and hit Ctrl-I, and it launches you into a (g)vim with the same content. You then hit :x in vim, and you're back in the browser with the new edited content replacing whatever was in the text area before.

Incredibly handy for big text editing on web page forms.

k2nr commented 12 years ago

The feature you requested is currently impossible as there's no API for launching an external application in Chrome Extensions APIs. If such API(launching external applications) is implemented in the future, I will add the feature to Vichrome.