From: "Antoine Levitt" <smeuuh@gmail.com>
To: "Chong Yidong" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, pmr@pajato.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com,
joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
raman@users.sourceforge.net, phil@shellarchive.co.uk
Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:07:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6fa54e4e0809081007l68f1df2ei71450cf3483f2d17@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqt6q0na.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
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Having browser windows in emacs would also allow allow users to benefit from
emacs window capabilities (fuzzy completion with ido-mode, listing/filter
with ibuffer, tabs, side-by-side splitting, and basically whatever else
folks decide to code in elisp). Classical web browser basically have tabs,
and keybindings to next/previous tabs. Emacs would make it much more
powerful.
Besides, as many people noted, it shouldn't be hard to do, since
technologies to do so already exist. IMHO, the tough step is getting text
and textboxes recognised by emacs, but even without that, it'd still be
amazing.
Good luck to you joakim, and please consider browsers as an equally useful
target of embedding as multimedia apps.
2008/9/8 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Switching constantly between Emacs and Firefox (e.g., by making Emacs
> > open links via a separate Firefox application) is inefficient.
> >
> > When you say "switching", what does that refer to?
> > Are you talking about a UI-level operation?
>
> Yes.
>
> > In what sense is it inefficient?
>
> In the same sense that it's less efficient to perform shell operations
> in a separate xterm, rather than doing M-! or M-x grep or M-x gdb etc.
> For instance, it's more cumbersome to arrange to view the browser
> display and side by side with Emacs, since the browser isn't constrained
> to an Emacs window.
>
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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
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 [this message]
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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