TextEditAid
Overview
TextEditAid is a Chrome extension developed by Wayne Davison.
According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of TextEditAid is 1.0.8, updated on 2021-07-06.
631 users have installed this extension.
40 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
Edit (or just filter) the currently selected textarea using a web request.
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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Frank Utne
2017-01-27
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? |
iLemming
2014-12-22
Aaah... please fix it for gmail, inbox and twitter, and many other web apps! |
Marco Kellershoff
2014-07-01
This is simply amazing! |
Fergus Cameron
2014-04-25
Lovely, I can now have chrome switch out to gvim in cygwin (and access text processors therein). |
José Leal Domingues Neto
2013-10-09
Cool, but it doesn't recognize gmail. Would be cool if you could take a look.. |