Version: 4.0 (using KDE 3.1.1) Installed from: SuSE Compiler: gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-4GB Why is it that TEXTAREA cannot use or launch a proper text editor to edit the contents of the TEXTAREA? I mean, why should I be forced to use this particularly crude excuse for a text editor to manipulate text in a 60x20 window (if I am lucky), when KDE already has several powerful text editing applications that can even be embedded into konqueror? I vote for katepart as the component implementing TEXTAREA, or at least a small button that becomes part of the scroll bar at the right side of the TEXTAREA that launces kate or another editor with the contents of the TEXTAREA and passes the edited text back into the TEXTAREA widget.
"why should I be forced to use this particularly crude excuse for a text editor". That's not a text editor; that's a simple multi-line text widget, implemented like in any other programs. Parts and widgets were not invented to do the same thing. That's my opinion. Your wish is logged anyways.
That is kind of the point, isn't it? The TEXTAREA is being used as a text editor in hundreds of web boards, blogs and other text processing applications, but its actual text editing capabilities aren't up to the task -- have you ever tried to edit a blog withn a TEXTAREA in a tikiwiki or tried to write something useful on a parsimony forum? Unfortunately, HTML offers no better alternative, and the HTML designer community has already kind of standardized on using TEXTAREA as a universal text input and editing widget. So what I am asking for is either a real text editor as TEXTAREA implementaion or a kind of gateway to such an editor with a call knob next to each TEXTAREA instance.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37146 ***