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It enables Firefox to synchronize contents of textareas\nor input elements with an external file. You will be able to edit\ntextareas on Firefox using an external text editor.\n\nA guide in Japanese: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tarao/20091105/1257463316\n\n== How to use it\n\nYou need to have Firefox and Greasemonkey extension installed.\n\n1. Run Firefox.\n\n2. Install *textserver* daemon to your local machine. (see below)\n\n3. Add \u003ctt\u003eretrieve-remote-text.user.js\u003c/tt\u003e to your Greasemonkey.\n\n4. Move focus on a textarea or an input.\n\n5. Write something to +text+ file and save it.\n\n6. You will get the textarea or the input synchronized with +text+ file.\n\n== Installation\n\nIf you are using Windows, you can either install by the installer or\nuse Ruby command as in other platforms.\n\n=== Using installer (Windows)\n\nA demo on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eI12gmzv6Y\n\nGet the installer of the latest package from\nhttp://up.orezdnu.org/release/textserver.msi.\n\n+text+ file will be accessible from your desktop (via a shortcut named\n\u003ctt\u003etextarea\u003c/tt\u003e) and \u003ctt\u003eretrieve-remote-text.user.js\u003c/tt\u003e can\nautomatically be opened just after the setup.\n\n=== How to run with source code (all platforms)\n\nYou need \u003cb\u003eRuby 1.8.7\u003c/b\u003e or later. After cloning the repository,\ndon't forget to do\n\n  git submodule update --init\nor install modules from http://github.com/tarao/gnn-rblibs.\n\n1. Install Ruby modules listed below.\n\n2. Make directory _dir_ for the daemon.\n\n3. Write ':dir: \u003cem\u003edir\u003c/em\u003e' to a YAML file \u003cem\u003econfig\u003c/em\u003e.\n\n4. Run the daemon with specifying _config_ like 'ruby textserver.rb -c \u003cem\u003econfig\u003c/em\u003e'.\n\nYou can stop the daemon by 'ruby textserver.rb -c \u003cem\u003econfig\u003c/em\u003e --stop'.\n\n==== Linux\n- \u003cb\u003erubygems\u003c/b\u003e (required)\n- \u003cb\u003egnn-rblibs\u003c/b\u003e (required)\n- \u003cb\u003einotify\u003c/b\u003e (recommended)\n\n==== Windows\n- \u003cb\u003erubygems\u003c/b\u003e (required)\n- \u003cb\u003egnn-rblibs\u003c/b\u003e (required)\n- \u003cb\u003ewin32/api\u003c/b\u003e (required)\n- \u003cb\u003ewin32/process\u003c/b\u003e (required)\n- \u003cb\u003ewin32/ipc\u003c/b\u003e (recommended)\n- \u003cb\u003ewin32/event\u003c/b\u003e (recommended)\n- \u003cb\u003ewin32/changenotify\u003c/b\u003e (recommended)\n\n== Build installer on Windows\n\nIf you have all applications listed below, you can build the installer\nby the following command.\n\n  rake win32\n\n- \u003cb\u003eRake\u003c/b\u003e\n- \u003cb\u003eExerb\u003c/b\u003e\n- \u003cb\u003eWindows Installer XML (WiX) toolset\u003c/b\u003e\n- \u003cb\u003eMicrosoft Platform SDK\u003c/b\u003e\n\n== Advanced feature\n\nIf you are using \u003cb\u003eGNU Emacs\u003c/b\u003e, try \u003ctt\u003eelisp/textarea.el\u003c/tt\u003e. 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