Edit with Emacs

Name: Edit with Emacs
Rating: 4.8929 (28 reviews)
Author: dakra

Allow user to edit web-page textareas with Emacs (and other editors).

Edit with Emacs is an extension for Firefox that enables users to edit text areas on their browser using a more full-featured editor, such as GNU Emacs. It works in conjunction with an Edit Server to service browser requests and is compatible with GNU Emacs and Aquamacs. The extension is licensed under GPL v3 and development versions can be found at github.com/stsquad/emacs_chrome.

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By: dakra

Daily users: 215

-4

Rating: 4.89

(28)

Version: 1.16 (Last updated: 2021-01-13)

Version code: 5164179

Creation date: 2017-12-19

Weekly download count: 2

Firefox on Android: Yes

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
contextMenus
notifications
http://penguin.linux.test/edit/*
http://127.0.0.1/edit/*
clipboardRead

Size: 338.52K

Email: da*****@tr0ll.net

URLs: Website

Full description: See detailed description

Source: Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated: 13 hours ago

Ranking

# 7,078 ▼ 50

Other rankings

#13 in cmd+m (mac) keyword 10

#67 in editor keyword 28 ▲ 1

#77 in css editor keyword 28 ▲ 1

#84 in text editor keyword 25

#192 in package keyword 17 ▼ 2

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Other platforms

Edit with Emacs (v1.17)

2,000 4.48

(130)

User reviews

Relatively simple to install and use in Emacs, (of course on Firefox side it's a click or two.) I can also confirm that it works fine with Emacs-mac on Macos (for at least the last several years of emacs versions).

by Firefox user 17493413, 2022-07-19

by Danny Navarro, 2022-03-24

by SmirnoffBG, 2021-11-25

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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Edit with Emacs requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

Edit with Emacs has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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