So, following up on my last blog post about editing text areas using an external editor I remembered that in the past there used to be an addon that could do view source in external editors / viewers and checking again, it seems that you can now edit text areas as well using the same addon. Its called *drum roll* ViewSourceWith written by David Ficano.

From their homepage, these are the goals:

- open page source as DOM document, read faq
- open CSS and JS files present on page
- open images using your preferred image viewer (e.g. GIMP or ACDSee)
- open PDF links with Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader or what you prefer
- edit textboxes content with your preferred editor and automatically see modified text on browser when you re-switch focus on it, this simplifies wiki pages editing, read faq
- open server side pages that generate the browser content, this simplifies web developer's debug, read server-faq
- open files listed in Javascript console. When editor open file the cursor can be moved to line number shown on javascript console, read js faq

I've just installed it and the UI is much easier to work with ( Dag is going to like this one a lot more ). Dont have rpms as yet, but there will be some shortly. For now, just install it from their website.

- KB