Editing Help:Text editor support (section)

===Other browsers===

==== Conkeror ====
[[Conkeror]] can edit text boxes using an external editor by pressing {{key press|Ctrl|i}} on a focused text box. Details on setting up this feature can be found on the [http://conkeror.org/ExternalEditing External Editing] page from the Conkeror website.

==== dwb ====
[https://bitbucket.org/portix/dwb dwb] allows editing a text area with an external editor by typing {{key press|Ctrl|e}} when the cursor is in the text area. This key-binding can be changed on the <code>dwb:keys</code> page under the <code>open_editor</code> option, and the editor is defined on the <code>dwb:settings</code> page.

==== elinks ====
The text-only browser [[elinks]] also provides a function to edit text areas. The key combination {{key press|Ctrl|T}} calls an external editor, e.g. [[Vim (text editor)|Vim]]. This allows also to use syntax highlighting, edit functions, spelling corrections and saving local copies.

==== Luakit ====
[https://luakit.github.io/ Luakit] is able to edit text boxes using an external editor by pressing {{key press|Ctrl|e}} on the focused text box. <code>editor</code> and <code>open_editor</code> Lua modules powers the external editor functionality. User configuration is done by editing a <code>userconf.lua</code> file and key bindings are changed with the <code>add_binds</code> and <code>remove_binds</code> functions.

==== Nyxt ====
[https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/ Nyxt] is able to open an external editor on a current input field. The default keymap is <code>C-c '</code> when using CUA keybindings. The editor path can be changed by configuring the <code>external-editor-program</code> browser slot. The <code>edit-with-external-editor</code> command is used to open an editor.

==== qutebrowser ====
[[qutebrowser]] can open an external editor on a selected text area by typing {{key press|Ctrl|e}} or by using the <code>:open-editor</code> command. Settings can be changed using the <code>:set</code> command, with the editor defined in the <code>editor.command</code> section. The key-binding can be changed by using <code>config.bind()</code> in <code>config.py</code> or with the <code>:bind</code> command.

==== Vieb ====
[https://vieb.dev/ Vieb] can open an external editor on a focused input field by typing {{key press|Ctrl|i}} while in Insert mode. To change the mapping for the action, use the <code>imap</code> command on the <code>action.editWithVim</code> action. To change the editor, use the <code>set vimcommand=</code> command.

==== vimb ====
[https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/ vimb] is able to open an external editor on a hinted form area by typing <code>;e</code> or by pressing {{key press|Ctrl|t}} on a form field while in Input Mode. The editor is defined by changing the <code>:set editor-command</code> setting and changing the key mapping is done by using <code>:map</code> to change mappings. Note that there are various key mapping modes for mapping commands.

==== vimprobable ====
[https://sourceforge.net/p/vimprobable/wiki/Home/ vimprobable] can open text boxes in an external editor by typing {{key press|Ctrl|t}} while in Insert Mode. User configuration is done by editing a <code>vimprobablerc</code> file. To change the key binding, use the <code>map</code> command on the <code>openeditor</code> function. To define a different editor, use the <code>handler</code> command to change the <code>vimprobableedit</code> URI schema.

==== w3m ====
[[w3m]] opens an external editor for text areas by default. To change the external editor, press <code>o</code> to open the Options screen and change the Editor field. If the Editor field is left blank, w3m will use the <code>$EDITOR</code> environment variable.

==== webmacs ====
[https://github.com/parkouss/webmacs/ webmacs] can edit text fields using an external editor by pressing {{key press|Ctrl|x}} {{key press|e}} on a selected text field. Configuring the external editor is done by editing <code>__init__.py</code> found in the <code>~/.webmacs/init</code> directory and changing the <code>external-editor-command</code> variable. The <code>define_key()</code> and <code>undefine_key()</code> functions define and undefine a command to a keymap respectively.

==== xombrero ====
[[xombrero]] is able to edit a selected text element in an external editor by pressing {{key press|Ctrl|i}} while in Insert Mode or by entering the <code>:editelement</code> command. Settings can be changed by editing a <code>xombrero.conf</code> file. To change the key binding, create a <code>keybinding</code> entry for the <code>editelement</code> command. The editor is defined by creating an entry for the <code>external_editor</code> setting.