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- <h1>Welcome to <span class="iat">It's All Text!</span></h1>
- <p id="ver"> version 0.7.3</p>
-
- <p class="warn">
- This software is ALMOST version 1.0! It's inches from being
- ready to go. Please <a
- href="http://docwhat.gerf.org/2007/03/its_all_text_v06">report</a>
- any problems you have to help!
- </p>
-
- <p>
- <span class="iat">It's All Text!</span> gives you a simple way to edit textareas, the large text boxes in forms, using your favorite editor.
- </p>
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-
- <h3>Quick Start</h3>
- <p>
- Upon installation, go to the menu <tt>Tools -> It's All Text!
- -> Preferences</tt> to set your preferences. Specifically,
- you'll have to set the editor's full path.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- There are three ways to use <span class="iat">It's All Text!</span>:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Right click on a textarea, select <tt>It's All Text!</tt>.
- </li>
- <li>Click on the edit buttons added for your convenience.
- </li>
- <li>Right click on the edit buttons for more options.
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>
- Here is a test edit box for you to play with…
- </p>
- <form action="" style="margin-left: 2em;">
- <p style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">
- <textarea id="test" cols="10" rows="4">Click the edit button and have fun editing!</textarea>
- </p>
- <div id="nteb">Note the edit button.—> </div>
- </form>
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- <p id="signoff"> Ciao! </p>
-
-
- <h3>A note to Mac OS X users</h3>
-
- <p>
- Out of the box, <span class="iat">It's All Text!</span> uses the <code>open</code> program. <code>open</code> behaves like double clicking on a file. It uses the type of the file to choose the correct application to run; for <tt>.txt</tt> files, that application is the built-in text editor.
- </p>
- <p>
- If this behavior is fine for you, then leave the editor option alone and enjoy!
- </p>
- <p>
- However, if you want to use a different editor or to force the same editor regardless of the file type, then you will need to do something a little more complicated.
- </p>
- <p>
- Firefox <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307463">cannot run .app applications directly</a>. To run a program in Mac OS X you need to do one of two things: If your editor comes with a non-<code>.app</code> version, then use that. Otherwise you have to write a shell script.
- </p>
- <p>
- Check your editor's documentation; if it comes with a standalone program, usually located in the <code>/usr/bin/</code> directory, then you can enter that into the <span class="iat">It's All Text!</span> preferences and you're done.
- </p>
- <p>
- Otherwise, you need to create a shell script. Here are the basic steps to create a shell script:
- </p>
- <ol>
- <li> Open your favorite editor. </li>
- <li> Create a file like the example below. </li>
- <li> Save it to your home directory: <code>~/iat.sh</code> </li>
- <li> Open a terminal window. </li>
- <li> Type this command to make the shell script executable: <code>chmod +x ~/iat.sh</code> </li>
- <li> In <span class="iat">It's All Text!</span> preferences, use the shell script as your editor. </li>
- </ol>
-
- <p>
- The example shell script. Replace <code>/path/to/editor.app</code> with the actual path to your .app file. It'll probably be something like <code>/Applications/MyEditor.app</code>.
- </p>
- <pre lang="sh">#!/bin/sh
-# This is an example shell script for It's All Text!
-
-open -a /path/to/editor.app $*</pre>
-
- <p>
- Other alternative shell scripts are available at <a href="http://docwhat.gerf.org/2007/03/its_all_text_v06/#comment-2054">here</a>.
- </p>
-
-
-
- <h3>FAQ</h3>
-
- <dl id="faq">
- <dt>I want to do something more complicated than just running an editor with a file-name.</dt>
- <dd>
- <p>In UNIX systems, such as Mac OS X or Linux, you can create a shell script with your commands in it.</p>
- <p>In windows, you can create a <tt>.cmd</tt> file instead.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>I can't find the edit button for (gmail, blogger, etc.)</dt>
- <dd>
- <p>Gmail, blogger, and other sites has the option to use "rich text editors". The editors act similar to a word processor. Due to the way these work, it isn't possible for <span class="iat">It's All Text!</span> find the <tt>textarea</tt>, it is hidden or, in some cases, absent.
- </p>
- <p>
- Workaround: Turn off the rich text editor, if possible.
- </p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>I use non-ASCII characters and they turn into blocks or question marks (?).</dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- The problem is that the encoding <span class="iat">It's All Text!</span> is using and your editor is using don't match. You can figure out what encoding your editor wants and change the encodings preference in <span class="iat">It's All Text!</span> or you can change the encoding your editor uses.
- </p>
- <p>
- A common problem I get is that someone is using Notepad or WordPad in Windows. These both do not support sane encodings. I recommend getting something like <a href="http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/">Notepad++</a> for editing in UTF-8 instead.
- </p>
- </dd>
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