external editing tool for browser

As long as I have the attention of a few diehard loyal xemacers, maybe someone knows ... Is there some sort of add-on that works with Chrome that can make use of gnuclient? For years I used Firefox as my browser, and had a lot of extensions I depended on. One of the main ones was a fancy version of view-source (I think it's called ViewSourceWith) that allows users to use an external editor of choice to edit textarea boxes, or in fact absolutely any sort of text box.[1] I set it up to use gnuclient, and was able to edit long and complex e-mail messages with it, but also most anything else: even cells in Google Drive spreadsheets if I wanted. I needed to write a really simple shell script in order to handle arguments. Worked like a million bucks, and made it easy for me to switch from using VM for mail to using gmail directly, which I've now done for a long time and can't imagine ever going back. However, Firefox has its shortcomings, as a lot of people are realizing, whereas Chrome is the latest cat's meow. I with ViewSourceWith would be ported to work with Chrome, but it doesn't appear that it will be. There are a couple of extensions that purport to use Emacs for editing. I tried them. They depend on an elisp file (supplied) and I guess a sort of client like gnuclient (ditto). GNU Emacs has to be running. You press the magic key, and it sends the current textarea buffer to a new frame (or window, whatever the nomenclature is). (Doesn't pop it up, though.) Not bad. Could be better. Would be better if it could be modified to run with xemacs instead. Other problems, too. Unfortunately, though, there were some negative side effects. I found that I was unable almost entirely to use Google Drive any more, particularly for spreadsheets. I use a fair number of these. Something or other was messing severely with the keybindings. After struggling with this at least a month, I finally gave up and went back to Firefox and ViewSourceWith for a while. Until my aging MacBook Pro totally bit the dust on me. (It was due.) So I bought the new 27-inch iMac, which is sweet, and of couse I have emacs-like keybindings in gmail and other places, but I don't have the easy ability to pop a buffer out to a running XEmacs -- or more specifically, to a running client program that will serve it to the program of choice. Is there a solution? [1] I guess I should point out that the main purpose of the extension is to view HTML source using an external editor of choice, but the author added this little functionality almost as an afterthought, but I grabbed ahold of it and used it for years. -- Lynn David Newton Columbus, Ohio neologisticsediting.com lynndavidnewton.com _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta