Edit Chrome Textarea

This is an Emacs package for editing Chrome textarea through Chrome 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

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