Edit (or just filter) the currently selected textarea using a web request.

Latest Version

Version
1.0.8
Update
July 6, 2021
Size
29.87KiB
Developer
Category
Users
965
Rating
4.25641 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Http://*/*
Https://*/*
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TextEditAid Extension

This extension allows you to edit (or just filter) the contents of a textarea on a web page. Since Chrome does not allow the running of an external program directly, this extension instead makes an ajax call to a web server, which can start up a graphical editor, or perform any kind of filtering you desire. The URL that is used is configurable in the options.

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.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url":"http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "TextEditAid", "version": "1.0.8", "description": "Edit (or just filter) the currently selected textarea using a web request.", "background": { "scripts": ["background.js"] }, "page_action": { }, "content_scripts": [ { "js": [ "page-prep.js" ], "matches": [ "http://*/*", "https://*/*" ], "run_at": "document_idle", "all_frames": true } ], "options_page": "options.html", "permissions": [ "http://*/*", "https://*/*" ], "icons": { "128": "images/icon-128.png", "48": "images/icon-48.png", "32": "images/icon-32.png", "16": "images/icon-16.png" }}
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Frank Utne (ID: 000000aadb7de924) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 01/27/2017 This extension does not work on Youtube. The only reason I installed this is because Youtube textarea goes back to previous page when I am just trying to select a word with alt-left arrow that works on every site but Youtube. Google developers are really incompetent. I mean why would they even think of mapping this common key combination to Back?

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iLemming (ID: 000000647b2dfc26) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 12/22/2014 Aaah... please fix it for gmail, inbox and twitter, and many other web apps!

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Marco Kellershoff (ID: 000000ead0653c5e) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/01/2014 This is simply amazing!

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Fergus Cameron (ID: 000000651e1f4a36) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/25/2014 Lovely, I can now have chrome switch out to gvim in cygwin (and access text processors therein).

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José Leal Domingues Neto (ID: 000000031578cd93) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 10/09/2013 Cool, but it doesn't recognize gmail. Would be cool if you could take a look..