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If you're on a mac and use Safari, QuickCursor (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor) is a nice free input manager that solves this problem. It lets you use a real text editor (Textmate, BBEdit, Smutron amongst others) in place of a text area. Pressing a hot key opens the text opens the text in your editor, and saving copies it back.

Sadly it doesn't yet work in Chrome, but the chrome team is working on it.

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For firefox there is "It's all text!"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/

(and mozex, which I used to use before that.)

Is there something like this for Chrome? It's the one thing I've missed making the switch from FF.

If you're using Safari, you can resize the textarea, search within it, scroll the textarea by mousing over it regardless of present field focus, and use emacs key combos like Ctrl-A, E, K, and Y without any additional software.

Ctrl + K is emacs? As far as I am aware it is available to every program on Unix through readline. See this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key#Examples

It was originally an emacs binding. Then readline picked it up as part of its "emacs-style bindings". The name is not only cute, but also descriptive.

It was originally the terminal escape sequence for kill to end of line (ESC k) which is what emacs used to emit when you typed Ctrl-k.

Should be "ESC k was originally...", right?

By editing your ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file you can set up a gigantic subset of emacs navigation keys (including almost-but-not-quite versions of C-k and C-y) in every Cocoa text widget on your computer, including Safari textareas.

Do a search for DefaultKeyBinding.dict, or just start with mine:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5431919/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Wow, I've been looking for something like that for awhile to help my CMS workflow.

I searched all over, but I guess I just couldn't adequately describe what I was looking for to Google.

Anything for Chrome on Linux?

There is Edit with Emacs extension - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ljobjlafonikaiip...

One happy user of Edit with Emacs for Chrome right here!

It should be possible to write an edit-server for other editors that work with Edit with Emacs, if you are that way inclined...

Vimperator does this, too.

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