Edit with Emacs

Allow user to edit web-page textareas with Emacs (and other editors).
What is Edit with Emacs?
'Edit with Emacs' is a Chrome extension that improves your browsing experience by enabling the editing of web-page text areas in a more comprehensive editor. This is facilitated through an 'Edit Server'. While the extension is compatible with GNU Emacs and Aquamacs and does not support XEmacs, other server scripts can support a variety of editors. The extension removes unnecessary tabs permission and includes fixing of various bugs.

Extension stats

Users: 2,000+
Rating: 4.48 (130)
Version: 1.17 (Last updated: 2023-12-05)
Creation date: 2018-01-17
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • clipboardRead
  • contextMenus
  • http://127.0.0.1/edit/*
  • http://penguin.linux.test/edit/*
  • notifications
Size: 353.28K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

Edit with Emacs is an extension for Google's Chrome(ium) browser family that allows you to edit text areas on your browser in a more full featured editor. It does this in conjunction with an "Edit Server" which services requests by the browser. This is because extensions cannot spawn new processes as a security measure.

The extension packages native elisp version that can be run inside GNU Emacs itself, just follow the instructions from the options page of the extension. It has been known to work with GNU Emacs and Aquamacs (MacOS); it is presently not compatible with XEmacs.

Other example edit servers can be found at the project homepage. There is no reason why other server scripts could not spawn other editors and currently a number of servers support the simple URL based protocol.

This extension is licensed under the GPL v3 and development versions can be found at: http://github.com/stsquad/emacs_chrome

v1.17

  • fix CSS bug causing repeating edit tags
  • add a 48x48 icon for the Chrome web store
  • remove unneeded tabs permission

v1.16

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Essential for Emacs users
  • Huge time saver
  • Very useful for editing large amounts of text
  • Works well with emacsclient on various platforms
  • Simple and much needed functionality
Cons
  • Cannot control font size in Gmail
  • Connection issues with the editor
  • Configuration can be painful
  • Button installed but non-functional for some users
Most mentioned
  • If you are an Emacs user, this extension is essential.
  • Exactly what I needed: huge time saver, thank you.
  • Extension can't connect to editor.
  • Configuring it was painful in my case.
  • Very good and works with emacsclient.
Recent reviews
If you are an emacs user, this extension is essential.
by Jeffrey Bauer, 2020-09-13

Exactly what I needed: huge time saver, thank you.
by Peter Stephenson, 2018-11-05

I wish there was a way to control the font size that gets injected into the text area in gmail. It comes our really small.
by Eyal Erez, 2018-02-16
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Edit with Emacs requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Edit with Emacs has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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