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{{Historical|comment=MozEx is no longer available, or compatible with recent versions of Firefox. See [[Wikipedia:Text editor support]] for alternatives.}}

This tutorial describes how to use the '''[http://mozex.mozdev.org/ MozEx]''' extension of [[Mozilla]] and [[Mozilla Firefox]] to [[Wikipedia:text editor support|edit Wikipedia pages]] in your editor of choice.

==Installing MozEx==

First, you must download and install the MozEx extension by visiting the appropriate web page and following the installation link provided there. The stable version of the MozEx package (at [http://mozex.mozdev.org/ http://mozex.mozdev.org/]) does not support editing [[UTF-8]]-encoded documents (and has a broken download link 2011-04-28 (visit directly download Index of mozex [http://downloads.mozdev.org/mozex/ http://downloads.mozdev.org/mozex/]), so the next best option is to visit [http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mozex107-en.html http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mozex107-en.html] to download a modified version, mozex-1.07.6). This is particularly problematic since all Wikipedia articles are encoded in [[UTF-8]] by default. However, the developersdeveloper's version of MozEx does support UTF-8.

==Configuring MozEx==

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When configuring the textarea setting to open up the text editor of your choice, the path must be wrapped inside quotation marks if [[long filename]]s are present.

For example: <ttcode>"C:\Program Files\PSPad editor\PSPad.exe" %t</ttcode>

Without quotes, [[MS-DOS]] [[8.3 filename]] filenamess must be used instead: <ttcode>C:\PrograPROGRA~1\editor\edit.exe&nbsp; %t</ttcode>

You can display the short filenames by entering at the [[command prompt]]: <ttcode>dir&nbsp; /x&nbsp;/p</ttcode>

===Note for [[Vim (text editor)|Vim]] users===

When configuring the textarea setting for use with [[Vim (text editor)|Vim]], be sure and use the <ttcode>-f</ttcode> commandline parameter. For example:

* <ttcode>cC:\vimPROGRA~1\vim70Vim\vim71\gvim.exe -f %t</ttcode>

* <ttcode>/usr/local/bin/gvim -f %t</ttcode>

==Editing with MozEx==