Re: Mac specific trick for working with chromevox and emacs

["Bart Bunting" <bart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raman,

Thanks! missed that.  Very handy.

Possibly OT but do you have any other chrome extensions you suggest
checking out?

Kind  regards
Bart

"T. V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Re edit-with-emacs:
>
> You can simplify things further -- get rid o fthe click on the
> "thumbdrop"
>
> Go to the options page for the edit-with-emacs extension in
> Chrome by opening chrome://extensions
>
> It has an option that if enabled  will let you launch
> edit-with-emacs using alt-enter.
>
> Incidentally when using stumpwm on Linux, emacs gets focus
> whenever there is activity in the emacs window, so I didn't need
> to add any hooks into edit-with-emacs on the Linux side.
>
> Bart Bunting writes:
>  > 
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > Here is a little trick I'm finding useful when working with edit fields
>  > in chrome.
>  > 
>  > The EditWithEmacs chrome extension allows you to edit textareas in
>  > emacs.  Just install it from the chrome store.
>  > 
>  > Once you follow the instructions you will get something called "gumdrop"
>  > after text areas.  Click on this and the text area content pops up in
>  > emacs for editing and c-c c-c closes the buffer.
>  > 
>  > The trick is that when this happens I was having to manually switch
>  > focus between chrome and emacs.  Not all that cumbersome but annoying
>  > 
>  > With the addition of two tiny defuns and the hooks provided by
>  > edit-server I have been able to automate that process.
>  > 
>  > So now when I click the gumdrop I'm in the focused emacs buffer and when
>  > I hit c-c c-c when finished I'm back in chrome.
>  > 
>  > I thought this may be helpful to anyone else out there using mac with
>  > emacspeak.
>  > 
>  > Here is the trivial code.
>  > 
>  > (defun bb-focus-chrome ()
>  > (interactive)
>  > (ns-do-applescript "tell application \"Google Chrome\" 
>  > activate
>  > end tell"))
>  > 
>  > (add-hook 'edit-server-done-hook 'bb-focus-chrome)
>  > 
>  > (defun bb-focus-emacs ()
>  > (interactive)
>  > (ns-do-applescript "tell application \"Emacs\" 
>  > activate
>  > end tell"))
>  > 
>  > (add-hook 'edit-server-start-hook 'bb-focus-emacs)
>  >    
>  > Kind regards
>  > 
>  > Bart
>  > 
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Bart

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