ItsAllGhosts 0.2

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.

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).