From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:18:32 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: pmr@pajato.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220566727 4935 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2008 22:18:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:18:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 05 00:19:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KbNB0-0004Zt-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:19:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbNA0-00087G-Ia for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:18:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbN9w-000860-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbN9u-00084O-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33031 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbN9u-00084E-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.pajato.com ([68.191.253.210]:56978 helo=copa.pajato.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KbN9t-0001yS-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from lilly (copa.pajato.com [68.191.253.210]) by copa.pajato.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m84MIWZR023509 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:18:32 -0400 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (copa.pajato.com [68.191.253.210]); Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:18:32 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103538 Archived-At: Steve Yegge, always an interesting read, recently opined that two of his "essential" tools are Emacs and Firefox. And claimed that if one were to subsume the other life would be nearly perfect, in at least one sense. While there are a few very useful Emacs add-ons that allow you to use emacsclient to edit text in Mozilla based tools (Thunderbird and Firefox come to mind), I've always wondered why someone has not hacked a plugin that support some sort of Emacs url. 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? -pmr