Most of my posts are written directly in the textarea. This is mostly because I'm highly lazy, and often falsely lazy. It's also because cut-and-paste in X tends to mess me up for some reason. It's also because I become more perfectionistic about my formatting when I'm using an HTML editor, to the point where I never end up posting. (See, for example, this half-done tutorial on context, which I normaly would have just posted where I started writing it, and not decided that it should be recast as a tutorial... so now it's sitting, waiting for me to have another burst of wanting to talk about such things. (BTW, the contents of my pad tends to change quite a bit, so if you're reading this significantly after it's posted, that link is unlikely to go anywhere useful.)
Warning: Unless otherwise stated, code is untested. Do not use without understanding. Code is posted in the hopes it is useful, but without warranty. All copyrights are relinquished into the public domain unless otherwise stated. I am not an angel. I am capable of error, and err on a fairly regular basis. If I made a mistake, please let me know (such as by replying to this node).