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Emacs Everywhere

A re-implementation of the fantastic idea in zachcurry/emacs-anywhere.

Installation

Straight

(use-package emacs-everywhere
  :straight (:host github :repo "tecosaur/emacs-everywhere"))

Doom

(Soon to be) present as the :app everywhere module.

Dependencies

On Linux, ensure you have the following dependencies: xclip, xdotool, xprop, and xwininfo.

Usage

Invoke the Emacs Everywhere executable^†. I recommend doing this by binding a shortcut to:

emacsclient --eval "(emacs-everywhere)"

A new Emacs frame will appear, within which you can type away to your heart’s content. It will remember which window you have focused.

By default, emacs-everywhere-insert-selection is a hook in emacs-everywhere-init-hooks, and will insert the last text selection into your new buffer. To clear this, type DEL or C-SPC before anything else.

Once you’ve finished and want to insert the text into the window you triggered Emacs Everywhere from, just press C-c C-c or C-x 5 0 to close the frame and paste the content into the window (as long as emacs-everywhere-paste-p is non-nil).

If you do not wish to paste the buffer content into the original window, C-c C-k still copies the content to the clipboard, but never pastes.

^† This requires the Emacs daemon to be running, but that’s super easy. Just call emacs --daemon and you’re sorted!

1 Open More issues

Closed

If the buffer is emptied, the original text area doesn't

Hi, I'm giving a first try to Emacs Everywhere (I'm using it to write this issue). It looks interesting but I've found a couple of problems. One is this issue, here is the steps to reproduce:

write something on a textbox inside firefox
select all
open emacs everywhere (so you will get the existing content into the emacs buffer)
delete all the content
go back to firefox C-c C-c

Now I will expect that the firefox textbox is emptied. Instead is not. It looks that if the buffer is empty, the original text is not synced.

Is this a wanted behaviour or a bug?

Thanks! :-)

not my fault wontfix

opened Feb 21, 2021 by finex 4

Closed

Differences between emacs-everywhere and emacs-anywhere

Hi, on the emacs-everywhere README it should be added how this project is different from emacs-anywhere since it reimplements it. Why should I choose emacs-everywhere instead of emacs-anywhere? Thanks for your feedback!

documentation

opened Feb 21, 2021 by finex 3

Closed

Inilizationing frame with selected text on MacOS

This is more of a question than a bug report but perhaps it is buggy on osx.

In emacs-everywhere-insert-selection the behavior of gui-get-selection is a bit odd. If the app isn't emacs where emacs-everywhere was invoked, then there is no text inserted. However, if emacs has selected text, then sometimes that text is inserted into the frame's buffer.

Is the intended behavior to insert the selected text from the app where emacs-everywhere was invoked? If so, I believe the portable way to do that is to use apple script (as you do in other parts).

As a proof of concept I made this work with this code:

(defun emacs-everywhere-insert-selection ()
  "Insert the last text selection into the buffer."
  (call-process "osascript" nil nil nil
                "-e" "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"c\" using command down")
  (sit-for 0.01) ; prevents weird multi-second pause, lets clipboard info propagate
  (yank)
  (when (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
             (emacs-everywhere-markdown-p))
    (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max)
                             "pandoc -f markdown-auto_identifiers -t org" nil t)
    (deactivate-mark) (goto-char (point-max))))

It's basically the same but is hardcoded for darwin. I can make a PR if that's the intended behavior / acceptable solution (but obviously changed to only use osascript for darwin).

opened Feb 11, 2021 by seanfarley 2

Closed

Fix OSX pasting

Fix to allow functional pasting on MacOS

opened Feb 7, 2021 by elken 0

Closed

Require cl-lib

Because the package uses cl-some and cl-destructuring-bind.

opened Feb 15, 2021 by hlissner 0

Closed

Refactor app state into a struct

What changed: All emacs-everywhere's buffer-local state has been compressed into an emacs-everywhere-app-info struct, stored in the buffer-local variable emacs-everywhere-current-app (which is given the permanent-local property so its value isn't killed when the major mode is changed).

Also, since the app name is the app's identifier on macOS, it is now used as its emacs-everywhere-app-id, rather than leaving it nil.

Why:

It makes it a little easier to juggle this state across the various init and finish hooks, and to clean up (in a later PR).
Makes it easier to prevent some type errors and loss of data when changing major modes (possibly fixing #3).
This is the first step toward a larger PR to make emacs-everywhere use Emacs' built-in server machinary for frame life-cycle management, to reduce redundant work and opens up emacs-everywhere for use with browsers or apps with direct EDITOR support, like qutebrowser.

opened Feb 15, 2021 by hlissner 0

Open

[DRAFT] Use server.el to manage frame lifecycle

server.el has its own frame management logic for temporary frames. We can exploit this to offload some edge-case work to Emacs while opening up emacs-everywhere for use with apps/browsers with dedicated EDITOR support like qutebrowser or vimb.

With this, emacs-everywhere has two entry points:

emacsclient --eval "(emacs-everywhere)" (the original entry point) and
Opening any file that matches one of emacs-everywhere-file-patterns (currently ^/tmp/emacs-everywhere- and ^/tmp/qutebrowser-editor-)

NOTE: Do not merge this yet. It still needs testing on macOS, which I'll do tomorrow if someone else doesn't beat me to it.

testers wanted

opened Feb 24, 2021 by hlissner 0

Open

Thunderbird rich text not supported

Hi, I've tried to use Emacs Everywhere to compose a couple of emails using Mozilla Thunderbird. If I wrote a plain text email everything is fine. If I try to compose a rich text email, line returns does not works. and all the lines are merged.

Probably the line return character is not translated to the correspondent "new line" (probably a <br> or a </p><p>, I did not check).

Thanks again :-)

what on earth is happening here?

opened Feb 21, 2021 by finex 2

Open

Error deleting window

Got following error after pressing C-c C-c to finish editing.

OS: Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7 Emacs: 28.0.5 Configuration: DOOM Emacs

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Attempt to delete minibuffer or sole ordinary wind...")
  error("Attempt to delete minibuffer or sole ordinary wind...")
  delete-window()
  (let ((export-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*Emacs Everywhere Export*"))) (org-export-to-buffer (if (featurep 'ox-gfm) 'gfm 'md) export-buffer) (delete-window) (erase-buffer) (insert-buffer-substring export-buffer) (kill-buffer export-buffer))
  (progn (goto-char (point-min)) (insert "#+property: header-args :exports both\n#+options: t...") (let ((export-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*Emacs Everywhere Export*"))) (org-export-to-buffer (if (featurep 'ox-gfm) 'gfm 'md) export-buffer) (delete-window) (erase-buffer) (insert-buffer-substring export-buffer) (kill-buffer export-buffer)))
  (if (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode) (emacs-everywhere-markdown-p)) (progn (goto-char (point-min)) (insert "#+property: header-args :exports both\n#+options: t...") (let ((export-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*Emacs Everywhere Export*"))) (org-export-to-buffer (if (featurep 'ox-gfm) 'gfm 'md) export-buffer) (delete-window) (erase-buffer) (insert-buffer-substring export-buffer) (kill-buffer export-buffer))))
  emacs-everywhere-return-converted-org-to-gfm()
  run-hooks(emacs-everywhere-final-hooks)
  emacs-everywhere-finish()
  (if (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode) (org-in-src-block-p)) (org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c) (emacs-everywhere-finish))
  (closure (t) nil (interactive) (if (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode) (org-in-src-block-p)) (org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c) (emacs-everywhere-finish)))()
  funcall-interactively((closure (t) nil (interactive) (if (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode) (org-in-src-block-p)) (org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c) (emacs-everywhere-finish))))
  command-execute((closure (t) nil (interactive) (if (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode) (org-in-src-block-p)) (org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c) (emacs-everywhere-finish))))

Doom MacOS

opened Feb 19, 2021 by emacsbliss 3

Open

Error when trying to write in apps

When invoking emacs-everywhere in any app and trying to paste the written text from Emacs in the apps the following error is thrown.

call-process: Wrong type argument: numberp, nil

I have all the tools in the README installed. I am using doom-emacs with Emacs 27.1 in Archlinux with the latest doom commit.

Cannot reproduce Linux what on earth is happening here?

opened Feb 8, 2021 by innerout 20

Open

Need more instruction to trigger everywhere

Hi,

Can u give more instructions on how to bind key on macos?

Meanwhile, I got this error when invoke emacsclient --eval "(emacs-everywhere)" inside terminal.

Here is my emacs:

➜ ll /usr/local/bin/emacs
Permissions Size User   Group Date Modified Name
lrwxr-xr-x    41 ztlevi admin 31 Jan 16:50  /usr/local/bin/emacs -> ../Cellar/[email protected]/28.0.50/bin/emacs

SYSTEM  type       darwin
        config     x86_64-apple-darwin20.2.0
        shell      /usr/local/bin/zsh
        uname      Darwin 20.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.3.0: Thu Jan 21 00:07:06 PST 2021; root:xnu-7195.81.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
        path       (~/.config/emacs/bin/ ~/.local/share/fzf/bin /usr/local/opt/emacs-mac/bin ~/.config/emacs/bin ~/.local/share/cargo/bin ~/.local/share/nodenv/shims ~/.local/share/nodenv/bin ~/.local/share/nodenv/versions/14.15.4/bin /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-14.0.2.jdk/Contents/Home/bin ~/.local/share/android/bin ~/.local/share/go/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin ~/.local/bin ~/Dotfiles/bin ~/.local/share/Dotfiles/base.macos.topic/bin ~/.local/share/Dotfiles/editor.emacs.topic/bin ~/.local/share/Dotfiles/misc.private.topic/bin ~/.local/share/Dotfiles/shell.git.topic/bin ~/.local/share/Dotfiles/shell.tmux.topic/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/anaconda3/bin ~/Library/Python/3.8/bin ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/lib ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/git ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/github ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/git-extras ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/gitignore ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/gitfast ~/.antigen/bundles/wfxr/forgit ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/docker ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/docker-compose ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/docker-machine ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/python ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/pip ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/django ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/golang ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/node ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/npm ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/yarn ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/zsh_reload ~/.antigen/bundles/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode ~/.antigen/bundles/hlissner/zsh-autopair ~/.antigen/bundles/zsh-users/zsh-completions ~/.antigen/bundles/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search ~/.antigen/bundles/zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/tmux ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/tmux-cssh ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/tmuxinator ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/aws ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/fzf ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/jira ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/history ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/ripgrep ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/web-search ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/nmap ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/copydir ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/copyfile ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/common-aliases ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/command-not-found ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/colored-man-pages ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/rsync ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/dotenv ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/fd ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/mosh ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/extract ~/.antigen/bundles/soimort/you-get ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/brew ~/.antigen/bundles/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/plugins/osx /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/28.0.50/libexec/emacs/28.0.50/x86_64-apple-darwin20.2.0/)
EMACS   dir        ~/.config/emacs/
        version    28.0.50
        build      Jan 27, 2021
        buildopts  --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/28.0.50/share/info/emacs --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/28.0.50 --with-xml2 --with-gnutls --without-dbus --with-imagemagick --with-modules --with-rsvg --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained
        features   ACL GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS IMAGEMAGICK JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER PNG RSVG THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS XIM ZLIB
        traits     (gui server-running envvar-file)
DOOM    dir        ~/.config/doom/
        version    2.0.9
        font       #<font-spec nil nil CartographCF Nerd Font nil nil nil nil nil 13 nil nil nil nil>
        theme      doom-one-light
        build      HEAD -> develop d1e5bfc07 2021-01-31 18:57:23 -0500
        elc-files  0
        modules    (:completion (company +auto) (ivy +icons +prescient +childframe) :ui doom doom-dashboard doom-quit hl-todo modeline nav-flash ophints (popup +all +defaults) treemacs vc-gutter vi-tilde-fringe window-select workspaces zen :editor (evil +everywhere) file-templates fold (format +onsave) lispy multiple-cursors rotate-text snippets :emacs (dired +ranger +icons) electric ibuffer undo vc :term eshell :checkers (syntax +childframe) (spell +aspell) grammar :tools (debugger +lsp) direnv docker editorconfig (eval +overlay) (lookup +devdocs +docsets) lsp magit make prodigy rgb tmux upload :os macos (tty +osc) :lang (cc +lsp) data emacs-lisp (go +lsp) json (java +lsp) (javascript +lsp) latex (markdown +grip) nix (org +roam +dragndrop ipython +pandoc +pomodoro +present) (python +pyright +lsp) rust sh web yaml :config (default +bindings +snippets +smartparens) :private (&user my-python) (&user my-checker))
        packages   ((adoc-mode) (tldr) (edit-indirect) (blog-admin :recipe (:host github :repo codefalling/blog-admin)) (youdao-dictionary) (link-hint) (symbol-overlay) (keycast) (all-the-icons-ibuffer) (emacs-everywhere :recipe (:host github :repo tecosaur/emacs-everywhere)) (dired-narrow) (atomic-chrome) (git-link) (counsel-etags) (imenu-list) (tmux-pane) (lsp-docker) (rime :recipe (:host github :repo DogLooksGood/emacs-rime :files (*.el Makefile lib.c))) (highlight-indent-guides) (bazel-mode :recipe (:host github :repo bazelbuild/emacs-bazel-mode)) (import-js))
        unpin      (n/a)
        elpa       (n/a)

MacOS what on earth is happening here?

opened Feb 7, 2021 by ztlevi 22

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