Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 6, 2009

Use an external text editor for more power

A good text editor like vi, TextPad or Kate (part of KDE) can be a lot more fun to work with than a browser's internal text editor.

If you use Mozilla, you can call your favorite editor with a single click from the editing screen by using the Mozex extension. For jEdit there is even a Wikipedia plug-in, which enables you to log in and load and save articles without having to use your browser at all.

Read more: Text editor support

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