GhostText VS emacs-term-toggle

https://github.com/fregante/GhostText with a plugin for neovim, my editor of choice: https://github.com/subnut/nvim-ghost.nvim

> Come to think about it, I don't think it works as an "editor" in HTML text fields?

There was "itsalltext"[1] (sadly defunct) - but there's an alternative (i just discovered - so I've yet to try it) : ghosttext https://github.com/fregante/GhostText

[1] https://github.com/docwhat/itsalltext

Speaking of browsers, I use atomic-chrome with GhostText on the browser side. It happened to be the least painful way to edit text fields in "big" browsers.

The GhostText extension might fit the bill for what you're asking for.

Another possible solution is to use something like GhostText (https://github.com/fregante/GhostText) in the browser. However, this solution is unworkable because when you open up an email, all the nasty html shows up in the external editor.

https://github.com/fregante/GhostText works well to connect to most editors.

For the background story: I have modified an old Emacs library to toggle to a shell in the current working directory, which I am very happy with since it is very small (~100 sloc) and very predictable (always below the buffer I edit). Now, I just want to add a small touch for working with ielm: when I toggle ielm, I wish to set its working buffer to the buffer I edit. Since I will call this in ielm-mode-hook, I need to know the last buffer I was editing, i.e. "the buffer I came from".

You can try this terminal toggle. Put eshell or term on a key, term-toggle-eshell or term-toggle-term and you can press that key to toggle ehsell/term on or off as you need it.

Or term-toggle, which despite the name has nothing to do with eshell-roggle 😀. It can toggle all of available "terms" in Emacs, if someone wants to add support for vterm I am happy to get a PR.

You can also try this little package if you need to fast pop-iup and dissmiss a term/eshell/ansi-term/ielm

There seems to be [equake](https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake) which opens a whole frame for the console. And [emacs-term-toggle](https://github.com/amno1/emacs-term-toggle), but this doesn't support vterm.

I have used for many years something called term-toggle.el, and I have recently rebuilt it to better suit my (minimalistic) need: https://github.com/amno1/emacs-term-toggle. Better shell seems to do a similar thing, not really the same though. I have sudo-open-file since before, which is enough for my needs when I need to edit some config script on my system.