A re-implementation of the fantastic idea in zachcurry/emacs-anywhere.
Just install from MELPA, and you’re ready to go.
Available with the :app everywhere module (and with a nice modeline).
On Linux, ensure you have the following dependencies satisfied: xclip, xdotool, xprop, and xwininfo.
Invoke the Emacs Everywhere executable†. I recommend doing this by binding a shortcut to:
emacsclient --eval "(emacs-everywhere)"A new Emacs frame will appear, within which you can type away to your heart’s content. It will remember which window you have focused.
By default, emacs-everywhere-insert-selection is a hook in
emacs-everywhere-init-hooks, and will insert the last text selection into your
new buffer. To clear this, type DEL or C-SPC before anything else.
Once you’ve finished and want to insert the text into the window you triggered
Emacs Everywhere from, just press C-c C-c or C-x 5 0 to close the frame and
paste the content into the window (as long as emacs-everywhere-paste-p is
non-nil).
If you do not wish to paste the buffer content into the original window, C-c
C-k still copies the content to the clipboard, but never pastes.
A hotkey can be defined on macOS using Hammerspoon with the following:
hyper = {"cmd", "alt", "ctrl"}
hs.hotkey.bindSpec({hyper, "e"}, function ()
hs.task.new("/bin/sh", nil, {
"-l",
"-c",
"emacsclient --eval '(emacs-everywhere)'"
}):start()
end)† This requires the Emacs daemon to be running, but that’s super easy.
Just call emacs --daemon and you’re sorted!