https://github.com/xuchunyang/edit-chrome-textarea.el

Edit Chrome Textarea with Emacs
https://github.com/xuchunyang/edit-chrome-textarea.el

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Edit Chrome Textarea with Emacs

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/xuchunyang/edit-chrome-textarea.el
• Owner: xuchunyang
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2020-03-19T09:23:08.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-08T06:37:39.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-16T01:45:55.664Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Emacs Lisp
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• Size: 29.3 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# Edit Chrome Textarea

[![Melpa](https://melpa.org/packages/edit-chrome-textarea-badge.svg)](https://melpa.org/#/edit-chrome-textarea)

This is an Emacs package for editing Chrome textarea through [Chrome DevTools

Protocol](https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol).

## Usage

To use this package, you need to enable Chrome DevTools Protocol by launching

Chrome with `--remote-debugging-port=9222`, if you are on macOS, you can use

    $ open -a Google\ Chrome --args --remote-debugging-port=9222

1. Select the textarea you want to edit in Chrome

2. Switch to Emacs, type `M-x edit-chrome-textarea` to open a buffer pre-filled

   with the textarea's content

3. Hit `C-c C-c` to send text in current buffer back to Chrome or `C-c C-k` to

   discard

## Alternatives

- the edit-server package, https://github.com/stsquad/emacs_chrome

- the atomic-chrome package, https://github.com/alpha22jp/atomic-chrome

- [ubolonton/pullover: Pull text from other (macOS) apps into Emacs to edit](https://github.com/ubolonton/pullover)

### Comparison with atomic-chrome

Pros:

- Don't need to install a browser extension

Cons:

- Users need to enable Chrome DevTools Protocol

- Edit-chrome-textarea can't sync between Chrome and Emacs on-the-fly (it's

  possible with Chrome DevTools Protocol but beyond my skills)

- Edit-chrome-textarea can't understand editable div such as CodeMirror used by

  GitHub (it's also possible but beyond my skills)

## Requires

- Emacs 25.1

- the websocket package, https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-websocket