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Hi,

When I run emacs-with-nyxt-start-and-connect-to-nyxt Nyxt opens ok but my prompt gets blocked with the following message:

"Setting sly package to NYXT-USER"

If I C-g to stop the process I can see the following error:

The value
  NIL
is not of type
  SLYNK::CONNECTION
   [Condition of type TYPE-ERROR]

My config currently includes the following:

(use-package emacs-with-nyxt
  :ensure nil
  :load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/emacs-with-nyxt"
  )

(use-package sly
  :config
  (setq sly-lisp-implementations '((sbcl ("/usr/bin/sbcl"))))
)

I modified just two lines in emacs-with-nyxt.el to require sly and also open nyxt with swank:

;;(require 'slime)
(require 'org)
(require 's)
(require 'sly)
;; Many lines further...
(async-shell-command (format "nyxt -e \"(nyxt-user::start-swank)\""

And added auto-config.lisp to ~/.config/nyxt/.

Thanks for raising the problem of directly passing text to and from the browser to emacs. So far, I have seen very few solutions for collecting information from a browser without a clipboard.

For example, Grasp firefox extension for org-capture gathers information into an org file on keystrokes. But the python configuration introduces unnecessary complexity into the organization and leads away from the required implementation "without additional layers". Emacs Everywhere still uses clipboard and some xdotool dependencies.

In emacs, this issue is sort of resolved automatically if you use the Emacs inbuild browser yourself. Unfortunately, it does not handle many sites.

Unfortunately, the instructions leave a lot to be desired. Despite the abundance of posts, there is no direct instruction on the installation process, no adjustments are made to the process yet.

How did I manage to install emacs-with-nyxt after looking for information in many places.

1. installed the sly package from melpa.
   Added use via use-package to my emacs configuration file
   (use-package sly :config (setq sly-lisp-implementations '((sbcl ("/usr/bin/sbcl")))) )

2. Run linux package manager which installed sbcl to /usr/bin/sbcl

3. Installed quicklisp as found it nned in the file emacs-with-nyxt.el. Detailed instructions on installation, fortunately, on the official site

4. added an auto-config.lisp file to ~/.config/nyxt and an emacs-with-nyxt.el file to the folder where my emacs packages are located (/contrib/ in my case).

5. Added a package call to my emacs configuration file
   (use-package emacs-with-nyxt :ensure nil :load-path "~/.emacs.d/contrib/emacs-with-nyxt")

6. not finding a connection & following the advice of users, added a symlink from the /slynk subfolder to the subfolder where the sly package is located which was installed from melpa.
   sudo ln -s ~/.local/share/nyxt/extensions/slynk/ ~/.emacs.d/elpa/sly-20220131.1646/slynk/

After that, the connection is created. The browser is controlled from emacs. You can send a command to open this or that url from emacs.

But the most hot part is how to send text directly from emacs into the browser.
From the one post where you are on the form in browser and typed ctrl-x ' and it will open emacs, then type ctrl-x # and emacs will send some text to the form I don't see this happen.
For example, opened google search form , typed ctrl-x ' and just ' was put into search form. After pressing ctrl-x # I see message something like this 'no server editing buffer..' .

What to do to actually send text from emacs to nyxt? Can text from any file wtih emacs be sent into nyxt?