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“Edit with Emacs” a plugin for Chromium which emulates the excellent It’s All Text by Christian
Höltje. It allows users to edit text areas on the browser with their favourite editor. Although Emacs is it’s primary target (with a native elisp server provided) it can support any editor that can be spawned via the edit server.

Most people will want to download the extension direct from the Chrome Extension Gallery. Otherwise you can simply clone to repository and select “Load unpacked extension” from the Extensions tab. Just point it at the root of the extension.

Possible TODOs:

As far as I’m concerned the extension does what’s needed and I use it every day. However there are a few niggles documented in the Issues section. Patches are always welcome and if anyone want to do some random hacking on it please feel free. There are also some ideas that might be nice to implement below:

• Make pycl.py more flexible (honour ${VISUAL}?) in selecting other
  editors
• Make the edit button fade in/out and take more care of page flow,
  much like It’s All Text. Currently it’s just dumped after the
  textarea.

Please raise bugs/issues with the code on the github Issue tracker. Feel free to scribble random ideas and thoughts on the Wiki.