From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: pmr@pajato.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:16:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C07A60.5020700@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lu3akf1rnr.fsf@pajato.com>
Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> For example,
> "emacs://x.y.z/some/file/or/other.txt" when presented to the browser
> would fire up a tab on the browser with a full blown Emacs instance
> "embedded/buried" in it and edit the file other.txt with the full
> power of Emacs immersed in the browser. Sandbox issues aside, what
> other issues need to be overcome to create such a browser plugin?
>
Probably lots for full generality and security; but emacs IIRC already
supports the xembed protocol on X11 (--parent-id command line arg?), so
making a basic plugin for firefox should be straightforward on X11
platforms, since firefox also supports xembedding as part of its
extended plugin api on X11.
http://developer.mozilla.org/En/Plugins
- tells you how to write plugins.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/XEmbed_Extension_for_Mozilla_Plugins
- tells you how to use xembed with mozilla plugins on X11 platforms.
On non-X11 platforms it's presumably quite a bit more awkward...
*** Note that if you don't want to _embed_ emacs into firefox windows,
just want the ability to type "emacs:filename" into the address bar,
then you can just define an external protocol handler:
Doing it this way is probably not entirely secure...
go to about:config
Following
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol#Linux_and_Mac
add the following keys (right click -> new)
Boolean -> network.protocol-handler.external.emacs -> True
String -> network.protocol-handler.app.emacs /path/to/emacs-url-wrapper
after making an emacs-url-wrapper that strips the leading "emacs:" from
its arg e.g. (unsafe)
#!/bin/bash
exec emacs $(echo "$1" | sed 's/emacs://')
Now, emacs:/tmp/blah.txt in the firefox address bar should pop up an
emacs...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-05 0:16 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 [this message]
2008-09-05 0:19 ` David House
2008-09-05 2:42 ` T. V. Raman
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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