TheCodingMonkeys Blog: Edit in SubEthaEdit

Edit in SubEthaEdit

map — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:16:00 +0200

Quite some time ago Gus Mueller of Flying Meat software published an InputManager that let's you edit nearly all texts within Cocoa applications in your favourite, ODB enabled editor (and does other nifty things). We thought it would be cool to have that for SubEthaEdit, so I took Gus code, put SubEthaEdit in there and made some minor improvements.

If you install it, you can e.g. select a text in Safari, edit it in SubEthaEdit with syntax highlighting or together with your friends and resubmit it into Safari without any effort. Watch the movie to see how it works.

Of course, I have to repeat Gus' warning: InputManagers can set your cat on fire if something goes wrong and are generally not the best way to improve system stability. Sometimes however they can be worth the worries.

Having said that, here's how to install the "Edit in SubEthaEdit" hack:

Download and Unzip
Put the resulting folder into ~/Library/InputManagers/
Restart your applications

I hope some of you find this useful and want to thank Gus for publishing FlyOpts and especially ODBEditor. The modified sourcecode is available here.

Update: I just updated the Input Manager to work with localized versions of Mac OS X (e.g. German). Please redownload and try again if you had troubles with the previous version.

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by Mosquito repellent plants

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:57:47 +0200

I basically don't have the menu item in the edit menu when I work with the German language settings.

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by Johnny

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:13:02 +0200

It does work here for German Mac OS and I am very satisfied. thanks for this.

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by 4gl

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:24:16 +0200

very needed information, I hope everyone need this..

Keep on sharing

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by map

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:51:06 +0100

As mentioned above, I just updated the input manager to work with German Mac OS X. I'd be eager to hear if it now works in a satisfactory manner.

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by Frank Blome

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:57:55 +0100

Any news on that? I am highly interested to use this on a German Mac OS X as well.

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by Jürgen Lichtenthäler

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:22:33 +0100

Frank is right, it doesn' work under german localization

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by Frank Blome

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:53:52 +0200

@dom: I basically don't have the menu item in the edit menu when I work with the German language settings. As soon as I switch to English an restart any cocoa app it works fine.

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by dom

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:54:03 +0200

@Frank: what doesn't work in german? Or do you mean the missing localisation?

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by Frank Blome

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:34:34 +0200

Hey folks, that's great but it would be much better if it will work in German, too. Even from a German company ;-)

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by map

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:11:36 +0200

Jacob: Thanks for the tip, I will have a look.

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by Jeremy

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:19:25 +0200

It would be cool if "Edit in SubEthaEdit" could appear in the context menu as well as the Edit menu. It would be more convenient sometimes. Otherwise, thanks, this is very nice!

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by Jacob Rus

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:03:37 +0200

To clarify sloppy grammar: Mail.app doesn't work with Gus's thing.

"Edit in SubEthaEdit" by Jacob Rus

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:00:53 +0200

You may want to look at Allan Odgaard's "Edit in TextMate" Input Manager, as it can also handle Mail.app, which uses its own custom editing control, and AFAIK doesn't work with Gus's thing.