I should point out the URL of the actual post was w3mIsMyAmbassadorToTheWikis.html, and w3m, a text-based browser, opens up your $EDITOR for you whenever you edit a textarea.

Out of sympathy for the Firefox sadface earlier in this thread:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/

'Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text!'