Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by tuvistavie » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 8:42 PM UTC

Use Atom to edit in Chrome
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Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by sambenson » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 9:14 PM UTC

Interesting concept, but why? Why would I use this?

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by bt3 » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 9:15 PM UTC

Very cool, but I'm struggling to see the purpose of this. The time it would take to focus on the textarea/ contenteditable field, then press the icon just to begin typing from a different program seems like a waste. Either that, or it has extremely narrow uses; none of which are readily apparent in my eyes.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by weatherlight » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 9:16 PM UTC

I really like the idea and atom is my editor of choice but I struggling to find a use case where I would use this day to day.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by mariusmg » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 9:18 PM UTC

Wow, this is sooo.....useless. Atom is Electron which is Chrome so you can run 2 Chrome instance and sync some text between them.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by mankash666 » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC

The screenshots demo-ing this tool in use shows the native WYSIWYG editors in the respective sites to be more feaure rich and intuitive.

This seems like a fun programming exercise with little real utility.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by rudolf0 » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

As others say, there's no use for this.

It would be really cool to have some kind of a bidirectional WYSIWYG for web design. Edit a text field in a Chromium window managed by Atom, and it makes the same change in your template file (or even JSX file). Edit something in your template, and the change is instantly painted to the browser window.

I know this wouldn't be trivial to implement, though.

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by lyall » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

A similar behavior is available with edit-server[1] and the accompanying Chrome plugin[2] in Emacs.

[1]: http://melpa.org/#/edit-server [2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/edit-with-emacs/lj...

Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

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Re: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Tue, Feb 02, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

I use this Firefox add-on to edit text in gvim from time to time:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/...

But I don't see the advantage of editing text areas with atom, which presents an extremely similar text editing experience compared to the experience the text area already provided. On the other hand, moving to Vim to edit a particuarly long comment or what have you makes more sense because I get to use the crazy keybindings I've drilled into my fingers.