As the security model of Chrome(ium) doesn’t allow the spawning of external binaries (apart from the discouraged NAPI interface) we need to run a server to handle edit requests.

This currently project provides two such servers. The first is a python script called pycl and the second is a native elisp server called edit_server.el.

If you run emacs in —daemon or —server mode and are comfortable with running a server within emacs then the native server will save the cost of a few fork/execs.

Other Edit Servers include:

• TextAid has a server here which works along similar lines and should also work.
• http://gist.github.com/367752
• https://github.com/gfxmonk/edit-server – a forked version of this project’s python edit server with additional functionality (e.g allows editing of multiple concurrent files)