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Looking for a Firefox addon: View selected text in an editor

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kartal:
I just want to be able to select some text and see them in my favorite editor. There are tools to see the source code of selected text and even there are addons that would let you edit text entry area in an external editor. These are not what I am looking for. What I am looking for is an addon that would let me see the selected text in an external editor pretty much just for reading purposes, just simple text.

I probably will write a simple Python or Ahk hack if I cannot find one.

kartal:
Ok I just put this one together. It works as long as there is only one previous window open. I use Vim as my primary text editor. Maybe someone with better ahk knowledge can help me out here

Edit: here is a better version


--- ---If WinActive ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass
{
   ^!c::
      {
      Send, {CTRLDOWN}c{CTRLUP}
      Sleep, 100
      Run "E:\programs\Vim\vim72\gvim.exe"
      WinWait, [No Name] - GVIM,,2
      WinActivate
      Sleep, 100
      Send, {CTRLDOWN}v{CTRLUP}
   }
return
}
}

sword:
I use Advanced Clipboard Manager to view simple clips. It is not a Firefox add-on but it works well with Firefox and clips are easily opened in WordPad. Probably in other open editors too.

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