From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: GNOME/Web browser Integration Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:32:09 -0400 Message-ID: <87ps1uf2wm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <2285a9d20708110027m37e68154w57803e009646eb54@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186850124 20692 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2007 16:35:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Dave Crossland" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 11 18:35:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJtvp-0008LZ-Q9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:35:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJtvp-0001au-CJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJtvm-0001ZU-H3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJtvk-0001YE-HG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJtvk-0001Y7-4J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IJtvj-0001aq-K5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 29C534E378; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:32:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <2285a9d20708110027m37e68154w57803e009646eb54@mail.gmail.com> (Dave Crossland's message of "Sat\, 11 Aug 2007 08\:27\:26 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16321 Archived-At: "Dave Crossland" writes: > Hi, > > Something that I haven't seen _any_ GNOME editor do, is integrate well > with web browser text-input fields. > > In Mac OS X with TextMate and Safari, you press Apple-Space and a new > editor frame pops up and the existing text from the text-input widget > is copied into this new file, where you can edit it with all the > luxury that comes with a real text editor (like robust autosaving, or > syntax checking, and all the other stuff emacs is insanely great for) > and then when you close the file, its contents is copied back into the > text-input widget. > > This makes editing a Wikipedia page that's dense with wiki markup very > pleasant to edit. > > My friend suggested emailing features suggestions like this here, if > this is the wrong venue, apologies and I hope someone will point me in > the right direction :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support Basically, this is already doably by installing a firefox plugin that lets you call an external editor for text fields, plus installing the third-party package wikipedia-mode.el.