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Comment by Myztiq | Hacker News Reader

The only real use-case I can see here is getting access to multi-select, and find/replace utilities, or perhaps other custom shortcuts you might use. Overall a neat little trick. Atom is not my usual editor of choice but I could see a few small potential use cases.

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I wind up copying text into Sublime all the time to do my formatting then paste it back into my browser.

Things like GitLab, GitHub, Bugzilla, Wikis, etc. You have a comma separated list of strings like "one", "two", "three", "four" and need to turn them into Markdown bullets - one - two - three - four

... an easy task for sublime or Atom

Yup, neat little trick. Also, I think this might be useful for answering or asking question on StackOverflow. Gods knows how hard it is to format your codes properly on those sweet little box.

I usually copy-paste longish things to the text editor (or at least to clipboard) to avoid data loss in case the webapp crashed / browser crashed / HTTP request failed / I mistakenly pressed backspace when out of the textarea (which navigates to previous page)

It happens rarely but when it happens, it hurts.

A browser extension I didn't know I wanted. Keeps history of textfields when I navigate away, and gives me an option to restore.

There are some, like [1]

But I use many browsers, webapps reset the forms contents with JS etc. It's complicated.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-...

Try the Lazarus extension. It keeps a history of form fields. It saved my butt more than once.

Another benefit is being able to use Sublime snippets as email templates.

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