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Other Software => Announce Your Software/Service/Product => Topic started by: Channing on July 28, 2011, 09:33 PM
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Hello all,
I'm glad to share Text Editor Anywhere 2 with you. It used to be a built-in feature of Listary (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23369.0), and now is a standalone freeware app. I rewrote it from scratch and added a bunch of useful new features.
Text Editor Anywhere allows you to edit text anywhere with your favorite text editor (and with a specified file extension). It provides a means of taking advantages of some advanced features (like auto-completing, spell checking and syntax highlighting) that are only available in an external text editor. It may also save you from webpage time-out or browser crashes.
- Support all kinds of text editors
- Support all applications
- Support Unicode
- You can pass complex parameters to the editor
It's very easy to use. Here is how I use it to edit this post in Firefox with BBCeditor by fenixproductions (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=17623.0):
Step 1: Press Win + A whenever you need it. You can hold Win key and press "A" repeatedly to choose another file extension or edit the text with a new extension. It works like Alt + Tab.
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Step 2: Edit the text in the editor.
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Step 3: Save the file and close the editor (BBCeditor here) or simply switch back using Alt + Tab, my post is already in Firefox!
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Links
Home Page (http://www.listary.com/text-editor-anywhere.html)
Download Exe Installer (http://www.listary.com/download/TEASetup.exe)
Download Portable Version (http://www.listary.com/download/TEAPortable.zip)
Enjoy it!
Don't hesitate to reply here if you have any questions or suggestions. Please help spread the word if you like it!
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That looks nice!
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Don't hesitate to reply here if you have any questions
Press Win + A whenever you need it
Can one set a different key combination? (I have no Windows key.)
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I checked cranioscopical and it is in the options for hotkey. :)
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FYI, the link to the portable version download is pointing to the setup exe 8)
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Channing: there's a typo on the "Test Editor Anywhere" page. A section heading says: "Text Editor Anyehere - Edit Text Anywhere with Your Favorite Editor".
I'll have to check this out - it looks like it'll nicely automate something that I do manually today.
Thanks!
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Can one set a different key combination? (I have no Windows key.)
-cranioscopical
Yes, you can set your own hot key in Options.
FYI, the link to the portable version download is pointing to the setup exe 8)
-Target
Fixed now. Thank you!
Channing: there's a typo on the "Test Editor Anywhere" page. A section heading says: "Text Editor Anyehere - Edit Text Anywhere with Your Favorite Editor".
-mwb1100
Also fixed. Thanks for your feedback!
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Hey! That realy rocks! :Thmbsup:
I know that feature to use your editor to modify an edit box from an firefox plugin
and the multiple choice of editors from Total Commander, but this edit text anywhere is great.
I just try it with XYplorer (http://www.xyplorer.com) run script dialog to have better edit features.
Thanks for sharing.
How does this works? Some kind of DDE? SendMessage?
Also thanks to fenixproductions for BBCeditor, at last i took the change to try it out and saw this is an great helper too :Thmbsup:
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It takes some getting used to, but I think it's quite useful :Thmbsup:
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I've been using version 1 for a while and it's completely replaced Firefox extension It's All Text!. Look forward to the new features :)
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Can one set a different key combination? (I have no Windows key.)-cranioscopical
I checked cranioscopical and it is in the options for hotkey.-hamradio
Yes, you can set your own hot key in Options.-Channing
My thanks to you both :Thmbsup:
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It takes some getting used to, but I think it's quite useful :Thmbsup:
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Much easier once I set bbc to the top of the list. :)
Edit: if there's on thing that's annoying is browser crash in the middle of an edit. :(
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Much easier once I set bbc to the top of the list. :)
-MilesAhead
That's what I did too :D
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How does this works? Some kind of DDE? SendMessage?
-AbteriX
In most situations it will use clipboard for better compatibility since SendMessage only work with standard controls (e.g. it's impossible to use SendMessage to get/set text for a text area on a webpage).
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I know that feature to use your editor to modify an edit box from an firefox plugin
and the multiple choice of editors from Total Commander, but this edit text anywhere is great.
I just try it with XYplorer (http://www.xyplorer.com) run script dialog to have better edit features.-AbteriX
@AbteriX: Do you have a recent version of Channing's Listary (http://www.listary.com/) as well? If so, try loading Total Commander and XYplorer together, but with different active directories. Next load a text editor and open its File Open dialog. Then Alt-Tab between the File Open dialog and the two file managers - and watch how the File Open dialog changes :)
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@Channing: very, very nice! :up:
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This was the last straw for me. I could not avoid buying Listary Pro after this generous unbundling of the Edit Text Anywhere feature. It was on my to-buy list for a long time. I have a million uses for Listary and a few for
Edit Text Anywhere Text Edit Anywhere (the post title confused me) (for example Google+ which doesn't currently provide the ability to save drafts), and their integration with every program is amazing.
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I just tried it out. MAN! That's slick! I love it!
I often write posts for DC in my text editor, EditPlus. I didn't even have to restart Opera or anything. Just unzip the portable version, and boom. I'm up and running.
Wicked cool~! :D
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Congratulations on a nice writeup at BetaNews:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Text-Editor-Everywhere-does-what-its-name-says/1312829104
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Wow, I didn't know Listary devs would be around here. :D
Great feature indeed. Now if it would also be able to store a "history" or something, it would probably make "Textarea Cache" and ArsClip redundant for me ...
Oh, and Listary's website needs some better hint to that software. Am I blind or is there no link to it?
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Edit: if there's on thing that's annoying is browser crash in the middle of an edit. :(
-MilesAhead
I've stopped worrying about browser crashes since I started using the Firefox add-on Lazarus (http://lazarus.interclue.com/). I never have to think about summoning up my text editor to be sure I don't lose what I'm writing--if something goes wrong, I just retrieve the missing text from Lazarus. It's my favorite add-on. However, if I were using a browser in which Lazarus didn't work (e.g., Opera), I'd definitely look into Edit Text Anywhere.
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I never have to think about summoning up my text editor to be sure I don't lose what I'm writing--if something goes wrong, I just retrieve the missing text from Lazarus.-cyberdiva
It's not just crash proofing. One of the great things about TEA is that you conveniently get your favourite editor to edit your posts with, so you can use macros, shorthands, whatever.
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It's not just crash proofing. One of the great things about TEA is that you conveniently get your favourite editor to edit your posts with, so you can use macros, shorthands, whatever.
-rjbull
That's a good point. However, I tend not to use my text editor for most messages that I write with a browser. Mostly what I write in Firefox are forum posts, responses to blogs, etc. I don't tend to need macros, etc. for that. I'm usually content with whatever input mechanism the forum or blog provides, which often includes things I can't do with my favorite text editor, UltraEdit, such as use colors, bold, etc. So I guess what I'm saying is that for me, the Lazarus add-on provides the one thing I really need: backup in case my message goes poof.
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It's not just crash proofing.� One of the great things about TEA is that you conveniently get your favourite editor to edit your posts with, so you can use macros, shorthands, whatever.
-rjbull
That's a good point.� However, I tend not to use my text editor for most messages that I write with a browser.� Mostly what I write in Firefox are forum posts, responses to blogs, etc.� I don't tend to need macros, etc. for that.� I'm usually content with whatever input mechanism the forum or blog provides, which often includes things I can't do with my favorite text editor, UltraEdit, such as use colors, bold, etc.� So I guess what I'm saying is that for me, the Lazarus add-on provides the one thing I really need: backup in case my message goes poof.
-cyberdiva
What keeps me from using a full fledged editor with spell check and yadda yadda is the word wrap. If I put in carriage returns it's going to be messed up in the board post. Better to use something designed for forum posting like BBCEditor. It's suprising how few(or maybe I just haven't sampled enough apps) free editors have spell check and easy to enable/disable word wrap, not to mention forum tags.
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I tend not to use my text editor for most messages that I write with a browser. Mostly what I write in Firefox are forum posts, responses to blogs, etc. I don't tend to need macros, etc. for that. I'm usually content with whatever input mechanism the forum or blog provides, which often includes things I can't do with my favorite text editor, UltraEdit, such as use colors, bold, etc. -cyberdiva
Originally, I think (maybe Channing will correct this) TEA was expected to be used for exactly that. I use Notetab Pro as my editor, and have macros (what it calls the clipbook) to help posting the code into DC. I grant I can't see the effect as one could in e.g. BBCEdit, but I know it's there. When I want to put in a URL, for example, it will pop up a little form asking for the URL itself and then the text, which makes it easy. I'm sure you could do the same with UltraEdit...
So I guess what I'm saying is that for me, the Lazarus add-on provides the one thing I really need: backup in case my message goes poof.-cyberdiva
That's very valuable, but TEA does it as well. As all its temporary files go into a single directory, I periodically archive them up, though that's probably an excess of zeal.
Text Editor Anywhere - Edit Text Anywhere with Your Favorite Editor (http://www.listary.com/text-editor-anywhere.html)
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I wasn't arguing against TEA, I was merely saying that I didn't feel any need for it, since I was content using the input mechanism available in each forum or blog. The only thing I need is what Lazarus provides: backup in case of loss. Since that's the case, I'd rather just use a FF add-on, rather than install yet another program.
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I wasn't arguing against TEA, I was merely saying that I didn't feel any need for it, since I was content using the input mechanism available in each forum or blog.-cyberdiva
I wasn't, so that's the difference :)
I'd rather just use a FF add-on, rather than install yet another program. -cyberdiva
You might like to know that TEA can be portable, which might occasionally be helpful.
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You might like to know that TEA can be portable, which might occasionally be helpful.
-rjbull
Yes, that's a good point. Thanks for pointing it out.
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What keeps me from using a full fledged editor with spell check and yadda yadda is the word wrap. If I put in carriage returns it's going to be messed up in the board post. Better to use something designed for forum posting like BBCEditor. It's suprising how few(or maybe I just haven't sampled enough apps) free editors have spell check and easy to enable/disable word wrap, not to mention forum tags.-MilesAhead
The underrated Crimson Editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/) has both spell check and essy word-wrap, plus a column mode, multiple level backup/redo and lots of other features, though not forum tags. Most people nowadays will go for something else, but someone in the old Yahoo! Group said that he put a copy of Crimson Editor on every client machine so that he would have an at least competent editor any time he came back to use that machine.
There exist other options for free spell checking - e.g. tinySpell (http://tinyspell.numerit.com/) or mouser's own Clipboard Help+Spell (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/clipboardhelpandspell/index.html).
[Edit 2011-08-11, 21:41] Come to think of it, you could put in forum tags with, say, a template as a Permanent Clip in ArsClip (http://www.joejoesoft.com/cms/showpage.php?cid=97), or by using templates in Konrad Papala's Ka Type In (http://www.konradp.com/products/typein/), both of them free. You won't get to see the results without pressing Preview in DC, but you can at least put the tags in conveniently. [/Edit]
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Excellent program! Really helpful. And excuse this rather uninformative post, I just had to try a combination of TEA and BBCeditor :)
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Hi forum and Channing,
I'm trying to use shajul's WYSIWYG BBCode Editor (http://www.shajul.net/software/wysiwyg-bbcode-editor/) together with TEA but for some reason the text is not transferred back to the textarea (e.g. here).
This editor uses a (proprietary?) file format called *.bbs (which is actually html-based).
From the first post I gather that the text should be transferred back to the textarea from the editor also by Alt+Tab, but this also doesn't seem to work.
Any hints greatly welcome,
Cheers David.P
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@David.P; Just to check, you are Saving the file first, before Alt-Tabbing back to the Web form?
I should add, TEA fails to transfer text one way or the other for me fairly frequently, but I can't get a handle on it. If it doesn't transfer text back the the Web form, I often add a space, backspace over it again - so the editor thinks the file's been changed - re-save it, and usually the next Alt-Tab back again transfers the text.
It seems to work better with some forums than others. DC works well. Fountain Pen Network, not so well.
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Looks interesting. I will have to play with it a bit to see if it is something that I am going to keep around.
Typing this in Boxer, so we'll see what happens when I save.
C
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Interesting - TEA is similar to Dolphin Text Editor Menu (http://www.animal-software.com/dolphin-text-editor-menu.php) (which I like a lot) but a slightly different take on the idea. I upgraded to Listary Pro :Thmbsup: the same day I tried it out, but didn't check out the rest of the web site.