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Feature Requests: Edit notes into an external text editor

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    • CommentAuthorngirard
    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2008
     
    As title says...
    it would be *much* useful to me to be able to edit notes into an external text editor...
    • CommentAuthorscot
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2008
     
    I agree. Is this possible? That would be a nice way to "add" support for a helpful note editing features to Zotero (auto indent, ASCII bullets). And it would make it possible to set my system up so that a keypress would bring the editor to the front--activate the window (to note something) and another would send it to the back again, so I can keep reading my PDF...

    There is a Firefox extension which will let you use an external editor for text fields in *web* forms, but I don't know if this would work in Z without some modification of one extension or the other.
    • CommentAuthorCB
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     
    I'd like this too.

    Something analogous to the It's All Text! firefox extension, along with an 'official' endorsement of a temporary markup syntax (see this thread) would keep me, and perhaps some others, much happier until Zotero notes are beefed up.

    This isn't so much new-feature-impatience as concern that I'm unable to put as much structure as I'd like into the many notes that I'm creating now.
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    I don't know when we'll get to this, but it's a good suggestion. Ticket created.
    • CommentAuthorCB
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     
    I don't know anything about how firefox extensions work and interact, but I'm wondering if an extension like It's All Text could be extended to work in other extensions' text inputs (at the moment it works on TEXTAREAs). If so, I could ask the developer if he'd consider extending it to do this (it works very nicely in html forms).
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    I'm wondering if an extension like It's All Text could be extended to work in other extensions' text inputs (at the moment it works on TEXTAREAs)

    I haven't looked at how It's All Text works, but it should be possible to do the same thing on XUL textboxes, though it might take a little extra work...
    • CommentAuthorCB
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     
    OK, I've asked the same question of the It's All Text developer. You never know.
    • CommentAuthorCB
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     
    I followed a link from It's All Text developer's site, and noticed that there's an API available to help make use of IAT from within other extensions. I imagine this would make the task easier?
    • CommentAuthorgoathens
    • CommentTimeOct 6th 2008
     
    I should point out that It's All Text works in the annotation "sticky note" editor, but does not work in the note editor itself.

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