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Use vim to edit ANY text on Linux

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Mar 15, 20261756 views

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I come from the Mac world, where I use http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor to edit text from anywhere in Vim. Is there anything like that on Linux ? I'm already using "It's All Text" in Firefox, but I'm looking for something broader. Also, I've looked at this thread, but it's only so…

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It would depend on what file manager you are using, but most of them you can usually add some sort of right-click menu item to "Open in Vim". I use Dolphin for KDE4. To add menu items (called service menus) you create a .desktop file in your service…

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