Duct Tape And Turing Machines

Emacs is my text editor and operating system of choice and I more or less have the basic keybindings burned permanently into my fingertips. This makes editing text in a web browser less than fun- not only do I not have the awesome text slicing-and-dicing power of emacs, but some key sequences have less-than-fun default bindings in other applications. Try hitting C-w to yank text in a browser under Windows…

With the Firefox extension It’s All Text!, you can natively hook up your editor of choice to any plain textarea on a web page. This is not limited to emacs, but extends to anything that can open and save a text file, including shell commands or that other editor. Pretty nifty!