GhostText
GhostText - Write in Your Browser Using Your Text Editor
GhostText is a powerful Firefox add-on that transforms your web writing experience. Whenever you need to write more than just a snippet of code, activate GhostText to seamlessly open your preferred text editor, enhancing your workflow.
This browser extension connects directly with popular text editors such as Sublime Text, VS Code, Atom, Emacs, Vim, Neovim, and ACME Editor. As you type in your editor, the changes are instantly reflected in the browser, and vice versa, creating a productive development environment. To use GhostText, simply install the relevant extensions and start the GhostText server if needed.
For more details, check out GhostText’s official site or contribute on GitHub.
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- contextMenus
- scripting
- storage
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Ranking
Other platforms
User reviews
- Great integration with various text editors like Emacs and Sublime Text
- Realtime sync between text area and editor enhances usability
- Significantly improves workflows for typing long texts on websites
- Works well with popular platforms like GitLab, GitHub, and GMail
- Provides a smooth coding experience
- Setup can be a bit complicated compared to other add-ons
- Issues reported with syncing in certain applications like JupyterLab
- Lack of a keyboard shortcut or automatic trigger to start syncing
- Inconsistent performance reported with some text editors
- Works well with Emacs
- Needs keyboard shortcut for better usability
- Issues with JupyterLab
- Setup takes longer than expected
- Realtime sync feels great to use
User reviews
Add-on safety
Risk impact
GhostText requires very minimum permissions.
Risk impact analysis details
- High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood
GhostText is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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