Re: Re: CSS tip for offline perlmonks writing

Does anyone really type in the textarea fields anything but the most trivial bits of text?

I do.

Most of my less-trivial code snippets posted here are written using my code editor, tested, and then pasted into the text box.

But 100% of the actual text and markup tags of all of my 300 or so posts to this site were typed directly into the textarea field. Why not?

Dave

"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein

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Re: Re: Re: CSS tip for offline perlmonks writing by Anonymous Monk on Nov 18, 2003 at 07:04 UTC
A textarea is far too limiting of an editing environment for my tastes and I am quite surprised that others don't find it so. When I'm writing and editing text I want to do it in the best editing environment I have, not some crude, barely functional text widget in a browser. Everything I post here is written in a real editor and pasted into the textarea. I can't think of a single reason not to use a real editor.	[reply]
textareas versus text editors (Re: CSS tip for offline perlmonks writing) by jonadab (Parson) on Nov 18, 2003 at 15:10 UTC
It depends what you're used to, and what you're doing. If you're mostly just typing in some text, not doing a lot of editing, such as for a short comment like this one with only a couple of tags, you can get by with a textarea okay. Basically, whatever you could do in a very basic text editor (a la Notepad) you can do in a textarea. Obviously, for anything more complex, you want a real editor -- by which, obviously, I mean Emacs ;-) `$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}} split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/` [download]	[reply] [d/l]