# Using something other than textareas to edit Radiant pages

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-something-other-than-textareas-to-edit-radiant-pages/104885>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [May 23, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-something-other-than-textareas-to-edit-radiant-pages/104885 "2007-05-23T15:53:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevin\_beckford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@kevin\_beckford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kevin_beckford)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-something-other-than-textareas-to-edit-radiant-pages/104885/1 "2007-05-23T15:53:15Z")

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Hello all,

I would like to avoid using textareas to edit my radiant site’s pages.  
I  
would much rather use vim to edit any and all text. Is it possible to  
do  
this other than using the radiant.vim plugin ( segfaults my vim 7.1 ,  
version .0.0.3 of radiant.vim ) ?

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**Author:** ![kevin\_beckford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@kevin\_beckford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kevin_beckford)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-something-other-than-textareas-to-edit-radiant-pages/104885/2 "2007-05-23T15:58:15Z")

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I’ve installed the “It’s All Text” add on for Firefox, which gives you  
an “edit” button on all textareas. You can configure it to launch your  
favorite editor and it will handle copying your saved data back into the  
webpage. Personally, I use SciTE on Win32, but I’m sure you could make  
it work with vim.

Sean

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**Author:** ![kevin\_beckford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@kevin\_beckford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kevin_beckford)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-something-other-than-textareas-to-edit-radiant-pages/104885/3 "2007-05-23T17:46:35Z")

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If it helps, there’s also a Firefox extension called “Save Text Area”  
that lets you load the content of a text area from a file. That way,  
you can prepare a bunch of files using vim (offline if you prefer) and  
just go through loading them using the extension.

Cheers  
Mohit.

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**Author:** ![kevin\_beckford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@kevin\_beckford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kevin_beckford)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-something-other-than-textareas-to-edit-radiant-pages/104885/4 "2007-05-24T12:35:06Z")

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Please warm yourself in my undying gratitude for the “it’s all text”  
tip.  
Now all my textareas can be done in gvim, and I feel like a civilized  
person  
once again. Brilliant tip. Thank you very much. Works perfectly.