Feature Request: Edit textarea in external editor

Roguelazer commented 6 years ago

I'm opening this issue because:

[ ] I'll report a bug
[x] I'll propose a new feature

Description

One of my most-used features in Vimperator was being able to press ctrl-I and open a textarea in MacVim/Gvim/etc so that I could use normal vi features in it without vimperator having to implement the entire editor functionality. I have no idea if WebExtensions supports calling system commands, but having to copy-paste back and forth between vim and various browser textareas is killing my workflow.

System configuration

Operating system: OS X 10.12
Firefox version: 57.0
Vim-Vixen version: 0.5

sanpii commented 6 years ago

This can be can done by another extension: vim-ghost.

Roguelazer commented 6 years ago

Ideally there would be something that didn't have the incredibly-bad security implications of the ghost plugin (i.e., didn't use unauthenticated WebSockets on loopback, and instead used a securely-named temporary file on disk).

ueokande / vim-vixen