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13 Dec 2000 (updated 13 Dec 2000 at 20:21 UTC) »

A couple days ago I made a bookmarklet that adds an "Edit this page" button to my browser toolbar. When clicked, it causes Netscape to spawn an xterm with vi on the corresponding document in my local cvs checkout space, then does a cvs commit afterwards. (and the cvs commit causes the file to be automatically checked out on my remote web site)

It's really useful! Now when I see something I want to change while surfing around my site, I click "Edit this page" and within 1-2 seconds I am in vi editing the right file.

See details/code.

Sourcexchange seems pretty cool; I submitted a proposal a while back, but it didn't get picked up because my choice of implementation language was too different from what they wanted.

The other day I hacked on HURL a tiny bit: added support for References: and In-Reply-To: headers. Here's a sample.

I generally use a mailing list for diary-type stuff, so updates here will probably be infrequent...

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