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Is it possible to make emacs as an input middle man for any text field in the system? It should work like this:

1 user focus the text input field of any gui program

2 a system hotkey brings up a dedicated emacs buffer

3 user do the editing in that emacs buffer

4 when finished editing, a short cut key send text to the original text input field

Possible problem is between step 3 and 4, the user may change windows.

Possible reference is the input method program fcitx, which has a pre-edit window, the editing is done in a separated popup window, a key need to be pressed to commit the content. What we need is to change the pre-edit window to an emacs buffer.

issue on fcitx tracker (https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx/issues/232)

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    probably depends on "the system", e.g. you can use It's All Text! for Firefox. – npostavs Nov 13 '15 at 16:42
  • Yes, I am looking for a way to generalize that to all applications. – godblessfq Nov 14 '15 at 19:52

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