I use vimperator's external editor functionality via ctrl -i to edit text area fields with gvim. This generally works, but I almost always use this with multiple tabs. I find that I start editing the field with gvim, use another tab (say, to do a google search), go back to my gvim session, modify things, and write and quit the gvim session. However, if I forget to open the original tab from which the gvim session was created before closing gvim, I lose my work. I then have to dig around in my temporary files to find the gvim file I lost.
Other than being careful to re-open the initial tab before closing the gvim session, is there a way to avoid this behavior? For instance, is there a way for the quit gvim instance to write the content to the correct tab even if I don't have it open?
My solution to this is to use drop-in replacement addon for this feature called It's All Text
It is basically standalone addon for this vimperator's feature that does this whole text-field tracking better in the background which allows you to use your browser while you have gvim or any other text editor open.
However it doesn't work for every field.