Zamansky 40: Atomic Chrome

Mike Zamansky has the latest video in his Using Emacs series up. This time it’s about using Emacs with Chrome via Atomic Chrome. Guys like Zamansky and me like to stay in Emacs as much as possible and—at least in my case—resent having to edit text without it.

If you’re a Chrome user, Atomic Chrome is a nice solution. When you’re in a browser text area, you can hot-key (or push a button) to bring up an Emacs buffer to write and edit your text. That’s very nice because then you have access to all your Emacs shortcuts and completions.

Sadly, there’s nothing similar for Safari, my browser of choice. I think this has to do with the Safari architecture but perhaps it’s just that no one has bothered writing one. Life on macOS is made a little easier by being able to use Emacs keybindings across the entire system but it’s not the same because you’re not really in Emacs and don’t have access to all those shortcuts and optimizations you have in Emacs.

If you use Chrome and Emacs, you should definitely take a look at Zamansky’s video. It’s just over 6 and a half minutes so it should be easy to find the time.

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