1710 For Mac users who want to use their favorite text editor everywhere. QuickCursor allows you to edit text from any application in your favorite text editor*. QuickCursor provides a standard open source solution that doesn't require input manager hacks to work.

Today QuickCursor is a useful app. It allows you to edit text from a text field in one application using many of your favorite text editors:

BBEdit
Espresso
MacVim
Smultron
SubEthaEdit
TextMate
TextWrangler
WriteRoom

It's also incomplete. It works with some applications and doesn't with others. Technically it works with any application that exposes its text to the Mac OS X Accessibility API through a single string value. One popular case where it does not work is in Mail.app.

Open source

With some work I think it could be made to work in other places, but I don't have time to do that now. If you are a developer and are interested in helping make QuickCursor better the code is open source.

Free Download (Development Version)

For more information, visit:
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/

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