README

About
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Emacs Chrome is an extension for Google's Chrome(ium) browser family
that allows you to edit text areas on your browser in a more full
featured editor. It does this by sending an XMLHttp request to an edit
server (see servers/ directory) which spawns and edit process which
eventually sends the updated text back to the browser.

I use it to edit pages using Emacs although there is no reason why
other editors could not be spawned from the various scripts.

History
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Dave Hilley [1] wrote the original proof of concept that showed it
could be done. I [2] then hacked around with the Javascript to make
the behaviour more like the classic It's All Text add-on available to
Firefox. 

[1] http://www.thegibson.org/blog/archives/689
[2] http://www.bennee.com/~alex

Authors
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David Hilley
Alex Bennee
Riccardo Murri

License
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The extension is licensed under the GPL Version 3.

Homepage/Development
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In the spirit of FLOSS software patches are always welcome.
Development of this extension is hosted on github at:

http://github.com/stsquad/emacs_chrome