Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)

["Antoine Levitt" <smeuuh@gmail.com>]

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2008/9/6 Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>

> To make Emacs display web pages with their correct appearance is a
> gigantic job.  I don't think that linking Emacs with a web browser
> display engine is a feasible method.

Why not ?  See this thread :
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg00456.html
He already embeds emacs within emacs. Embedding firefox (or chrome, or
midori, or whatever) shouldn't be much harder. A keymap would be transfered
to the underlying process (kinda like what term-mode does), so the user can
scroll the window and thinkgs like that. That alone would be  extremely
useful. Then, we can use inter-process communication (maybe mozrepl can do
that ?) to better communicate with the browser (and really integrate it into
emacs, ie have the minibuffer prompt the user for the webpage to go to, and
maybe add link following, kind of like how conkeror does). What I think
would be really hard to do is have emacs edit text areas in place, but
that's only icing on the cake.


>
> I proposed years ago that we extend Emacs to the point where it can
> function as a word processor.  This is mainly a matter of adding
> features that let you put things in a buffer (and save them in files)
> to get various kinds of formatting effects.  To display web pages is an
> even more distant goal; it requires MORE new buffer and display
> features.
>
> I would be very glad to see people start working on some of them.
>
That's if we want to make emacs itself display the web page. I don't see the
point, since other projects do precisely that.

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