irule editor - linux

Reading through these posts, I thought there might be value in mentioning the "It's all text" plug-in for Mozilla Firefox. It's not quite as elegant as a direct connection with pycontrol, but if you're using the F5 Web UI and tired of dealing with the text area box to edit iRules, you can install "It's all text" as an FF plug-in and then click the little round edit button next to the iRule text area and have the iRule come up in any text editor of your choice, including gVim (which is what I use on the Mac). And because iRules are essentially TCL, you can also get syntax highlighting. Once you're done with your edits, do a traditional save (:wq in vim/gVim) and the contents are written back to the text area box, ready for updating. Just thought I'd point it out as a mid-way solution for using vim to edit iRules w/o installing Python, etc.