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What this is
It’s All Ghosts is a universal “editor extension” for the GhostText browser add-on.
While It’s All Text was able to spawn almost any editor, GhostText focuses on such editors that are able to run plugin code on their own. This leaves users of most simple editors, like joe, jupp, nano, gedit or kwrite behind.
Compared to fully supported editors, there is a small trade-off: GhostText can update the text live between the input field and the editor. This is not possible with It’s All Ghosts. Instead, It’s All Ghosts simply spawns the editor on connect and passes the file contents back on exit. It does, however, update the temporary file upon a change notification from the browser and some editors track file modifications - don’t use that, however, because it will almost certainly destroy your contents somewhere.
But apart from that, you can now again use your favourite editor again!
How to define your editor
It’s All Ghosts defaults to running nano in an xterm.
You can place your own script to execute as editor into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/itsallghosts_cmd. Example:
exec konsole --separate -e jstar $*
This example runs jstar (from the joe suite) in KDE’s Konsole instead.
How to run
Just make sure that itsallghosts is running in your desktop session.
Multi-user mod
The architecture of the GostText protocoll does not allow running on a multi-user system, as it relies on port 4001 being available to exactly one user.
It’s All Ghosts can be run as a system service, handing off single sessions to the corresponding user. This is done by introspecting the HTTP connection and is a bit of black magic not guaranteed to work correctly.
To run the system service, simply run itsallghosts as root (this is the only way of getting hold of socket owners).
In each user session then run:
itsallghosts --user
Development and contributing
It’s All Ghosts is very basic and sure can use some improvements. You can report issues or contribute in the EduGit repository (also open to GitHub and other users).
It’s All Ghosts is licenced under the MIT license (see the LICENSE file for the text).
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