Emacs
Emacs editing from within Chrome, especially Chromebooks. Works offline. Based on ymacs.
As of May 2026, Emacs has 146 users and a 3.88/5 rating from 8 reviews in the Developer Tools category.
Usersdown 15.1 percent−15.1%
146
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Ratingno change0%
3.88
8 reviews
Reviewsno change0%
8
Version
0.4
Manifest V2
History
2 snapshotsTracking since Apr 26, 2026.
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2026 | 172 | 3.88 | 8 | 0.4 |
| May 23, 2026 | 158 | 3.88 | 8 | 0.4 |
| Now | 146 | 3.88 | 8 | 0.4 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- None declared
- Host access
- None declared
Screenshots
About
http://www.ymacs.org/ extended to work as a chrome app, giving access to local files and all keystrokes (C-n, C-w, and C-t). On chromebooks, local files even includes Google Drive. Still in early development, but self hosted development works. Soon to come: more traditional file name handling support, then dired and M-x grep A Hackathon project by Pace Willisson <[email protected]> and Eric Willisson <[email protected]>
Technical
- Version
- 0.4
- Manifest
- V2
- Size
- 552KiB
- Min Chrome
- 23
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- pledjnbikkbieemanocnjeoacdcphlgf
- Developer ID
- uc761bed22c74fb777a05c7465ca997f8
- Developer Email
- —
- Created
- Nov 29, 2014
- Last Updated (Store)
- Nov 29, 2014
- Last Scraped
- May 23, 2026
- Support URL
- —
- Privacy Policy
- —
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