Edit (or just filter) the currently selected textarea using a web request.
TextEditAid Extension
When a textarea receives the focus (e.g. if you click in one), the icon will get a click action (indicated by the mouse-over title text). When left-clicked, an ajax request will process the currently-selected textarea and update the value when the request is done (e.g. when the editor exits). You can also assign a keystroke to use to activate the editor (I like Alt-Enter), which allows you to leave the extension's icon unpinned.
Change Log:
1.0.8 - Renamed TextAid to TextEditAid & tweaked for newer chrome.
1.0.7 - Tweaked the OK/Cancel buttons on the options page.
1.0.6 - A fix for Mac OS X that made clicking on the icon not work.
1.0.5 - Include the status text in the failure alert so it is clearer what needs to be fixed.
1.0.4 - Avoid spurious failure alerts after a successful update. Added support for http basic auth (you'll need an updated version of edit-server or whatever script you're using).
1.0.3 - Added a configurable keyboard shortcut (defaults to disabled).
1.0.2 - Fixed a newly-introduced bug with the field editing.
1.0.1 - Changed event capturing method so that focusing any textarea shows the clickable icon.
The edit-server script that I wrote (in perl) for use with TextEditAid:
http://opencoder.net/edit-server
Another option are the servers written for the emacs_chrome project (the python one worked fine when last I looked at it, though it was only single-threaded). You could also supply your own server script, or run a CGI under a normal web server. See the options page for more information on the POST request used.
Source Manifest.json
Similar Extensions
Vimsert 965 3 ★ 203KiB
GhostText 965 138 ★ 98.09KiB
Text-Aid-Too 965 2 ★ 16.82KiB
AceArea 965 6 ★ 2.17MiB
Table-of-contents-crx 965 20 ★ 94.75KiB
Browser's external editor 965 2 ★ 24.87KiB
Noteblock 965 11 ★ 250KiB
Text Field 965 7 ★ 10.66KiB
textarea to code editor 965 12 ★ 2.6MiB
Edit with Emacs 965 130 ★ 345KiB
Surfingkeys 965 279 ★ 1.2MiB
wasavi 965 141 ★ 475KiB
Pocket Vim 965 6 ★ 83.3KiB
Firenvim 965 29 ★ 325KiB
Excellent Selection 965 9 ★ 82.43KiB
AlterNote Editor 965 52 ★ 942KiB
Edit in Zed 965 10 ★ 94.42KiB
TempText 965 10 ★ 46.78KiB
Tabbr: Tab Manager 965 50 ★ 81.61KiB
Tab Extract 965 86 ★ 26.4KiB
Script Menu 965 13 ★ 253KiB
Selekt - One click actions for text selection 965 34 ★ 129KiB
Awesome Window & Tab Manager 965 28 ★ 81.28KiB
Bookmarks Tagging 965 60 ★ 328KiB
User reviews
Frank Utne (ID: 000000aadb7de924) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 01/27/2017
iLemming (ID: 000000647b2dfc26) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 12/22/2014
Marco Kellershoff (ID: 000000ead0653c5e) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/01/2014
Fergus Cameron (ID: 000000651e1f4a36) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/25/2014
José Leal Domingues Neto (ID: 000000031578cd93) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 10/09/2013