QuickCursor

Use your favorite editor anywhere.

For Mac users who want to use their favorite text editor everywhere. QuickCursor is menu item that allows you to edit text from any application in your favorite text editor*. Unlike custom “edit in” plugin solutions QuickCursor provides a standard open source solution that uses public API's and doesn’t require input manager hacks to work.

QuickCursor is still in development and not yet ready for public consumption. I'm sharing early so that existing WriteRoom users can try it out, so please don't post to versiontracker, etc.

QuickCursor is meant to duplicate WriteRoom's "Edit in WriteRoom" functionality on Leopard. It is also intended to provide a common solution to the "Edit in" problem. In future releases you will be able to change you preferred editor from WriteRoom to BBEdit, TextMate, Smultron, or any other text editor that supports the ODB Editor Suite.

QuickCursor will be free and open source. The sources are not public quite yet, but if you are a developer and want to work on the code right now drop me an email.

To use QuickCursor:

  1. It's buggy!
  2. Requires latest WriteRoom-Leopard-Test version
  3. Double-click the application icon and a new 'Q' status item will be added to the OS X status items menu bar in the top right part of your screen.
  4. Now go to a text fields in some app (Such as Safari) and click on that text field to give it focus. Then click on the 'Q' status item.
  5. WriteRoom should open with the contents of the Safari text field.
  6. When you save that document in WriteRoom the Safari text field should get updated.

Here's a download link for version 0.1.1:

QuickCursor download

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