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Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web

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Re: Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web

#42

This is something I've wanted to make, I'll be reading through the source to work on my Javascript knowledge. Now I need a Chrome plugin to make every text entry box work like this (Edit With Emacs didn't do it for me last time I tried, I habitually type C-x s and that was closing my buffer and returning to the browser).

You can rebind keys to do different things in Emacs, and make Edit With Emacs behave any way you want.

Re: Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web

#44

I'd love for this to work universally but it looks like capturing CTRL-N (line-down) is a wontfix in chrome :( Should we lobby and open a new bug? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=33056

works fine for me in chrome stable branch on ubuntu 32bit edit-- no i'm in 6.0.472.14 dev

Re: Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web

#46

Super Dee Duper! I cracked myself up when trying C-M-q using the Command (clover) key on my mac, which of course was seen as CMD-Q by the browser, which for you non OS X folks means QUIT.

I tried it wondering if it would quit the browser, but it didn't. (I'm using Firefox)

First thing I tired as well using Chrome. A little disappointing but you cant have it all.

Re: Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web

#47
post #6

The problem is I need an emacs/vim/TextMate style editor for the iPad usable in the airplane. I really wish TextMate would become available on iOS.

And really, do you want to be pressing multiple keys at the same time like you would for emacs hot keys on an iPad? I'm not an avid user, but those motions seem incredibly unnatural.

C-X, C-S to save? and that's just the beginning.

vim suffers similarly, though probably not to the same extent. An editor that takes advantage of the iPad's touch screen would be superior, imo

Re: Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web

#49
post #44

I'd love for this to work universally but it looks like capturing CTRL-N (line-down) is a wontfix in chrome :( Should we lobby and open a new bug? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=33056

works fine for me in chrome stable branch on ubuntu 32bit edit-- no i'm in 6.0.472.14 dev

I'm testing on Chrome 9.0.570.0 dev on win7 right now. CTRL-N causes a new window to open.

Curious if this is platform specific.

Can you switch to dev and let me know what results you get? If different than a new bug is warranted.

Re: Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web

#50
post #13

Now what I'd really like is the reverse: Webkit in an emacs buffer. That would totally rock I'd never have to leave emacs. I wonder how hard it would be to hack something up like that?

Closest I've ever come across is Conkeror (http://conkeror.org) That's using Gecko instead of WebKit but it's still a great project. It's my primary browser.
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