Search-and-replace text in Firefox
Ric Werme
ewerme at comcast.net
Sun Oct 19 12:35:50 EDT 2008
Ben wrote:
> Anyone know of a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey userscript which
> provides an ad hoc "search-and-replace text" feature? I frequently
> find myself wanting to do this within an HTML form's TEXTAREA box, or
> even across multiple text fields.
> I could, of course, copy-and-paste to another text editor, or even
> use one of the extensions that will fire up an external text editor.
> However, that is cumbersome -- for some of my usage cases,
> impractically so. I need something lightweight, that lives inside the
> browser, and that I can invoke easily and quickly.
While it only works with text areas, I'm mostly happy with the "It's All
Text" extension. I have a 3x3 workspace grid and keep Netscape in the lower
left and get there via "1" on the numeric keypad.
So I've added an emacs there too and for editing a textarea on various blogs
click on edit, edit in emacs, save and go back to Netscape. Less hassle
than cut & paste. I'd probably keep using It's All Text even if I knew of a
search&replace addon.
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