From: "T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net>
To: pmr@pajato.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:42:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18624.40059.414121.633475@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lu3akf1rnr.fsf@pajato.com>
Persoanlly I'd prefer the embedding to go in the other direction,
i.e. embed something like Webkit inside Emacs, ask Webki to
render the Web into an emacs buffer, and enable full DOM access
from Emacs Lisp.
This way security sandboxing can be per whatever webkit does, and
emacs which typically runs with more previleges wouldn't have to
worry about code that comes from the network doing unsafe things.
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com> writes:
Paul> Steve Yegge, always an interesting read, recently
Paul> opined that two of his "essential" tools are Emacs and
Paul> Firefox. And claimed that if one were to subsume the
Paul> other life would be nearly perfect, in at least one
Paul> sense.
Paul>
Paul> While there are a few very useful Emacs add-ons that
Paul> allow you to use emacsclient to edit text in Mozilla
Paul> based tools (Thunderbird and Firefox come to mind),
Paul> I've always wondered why someone has not hacked a
Paul> plugin that support some sort of Emacs url. For
Paul> example, "emacs://x.y.z/some/file/or/other.txt" when
Paul> presented to the browser would fire up a tab on the
Paul> browser with a full blown Emacs instance
Paul> "embedded/buried" in it and edit the file other.txt
Paul> with the full power of Emacs immersed in the browser.
Paul> Sandbox issues aside, what other issues need to be
Paul> overcome to create such a browser plugin?
Paul>
Paul> -pmr
Paul>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-05 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-04 22:18 An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05 0:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-05 0:19 ` David House
2008-09-05 2:42 ` T. V. Raman [this message]
2008-09-05 4:53 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05 6:44 ` joakim
2008-09-05 8:53 ` Phil Jackson
2008-09-05 9:21 ` joakim
2008-09-05 9:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-05 11:20 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06 7:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 10:48 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06 21:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 21:36 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 22:25 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 23:08 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:41 ` Sean O'Rourke
2008-09-07 23:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 16:42 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-06 16:58 ` joakim
2008-09-06 19:42 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-06 20:20 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:54 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-06 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 17:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 17:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 18:29 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08 9:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 12:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08 17:07 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 19:05 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 19:07 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 20:27 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 21:33 ` joakim
2008-09-08 21:46 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-09 8:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 22:13 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 9:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-05 13:33 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 13:32 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 20:40 ` Christian Faulhammer
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