From: James Taylor <james@openmail.cc>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs for forums?
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:35:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2kg2b0k.fsf@openmail.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87va9s2o1p.fsf@openmail.cc
James Taylor <james@openmail.cc> writes:
> Hikaru Ichijyo <ichijyo@macross.sdf.jp> writes:
>
>> We just don't want to take on so much of this browser functionality that
>> Emacs starts to have some of the same security problems that big GUI
>> browsers tend to have.
>
> Oh, I completely agree with that concern. This would undoubtedly, if it
> ever happens, need to be a "bare minimum" approach that doesn't make
> Emacs an interesting target.
>
> One thought I had was to make a small external program (in a container,
> maybe?) that does nothing more than take the requested webpage and make
> it more palatable to Emacs, with the ability to update and change pages
> on demand and no direct route to Emacs' files from that external
> program. Maybe there could be editable fields that the external program
> sends in a text interface for Emacs, processes after editing, and pushes
> to the current forum site.
>
> Combining that with a password manager like pass that integrates with
> GPG might be interesting as well.
>
> Of course, I don't have the ability to do any of this, it's idle musing
> and no doubt reinventing the wheel in a lot of ways.
And not long after writing this, it occurred to me that what I was
suggesting was not, in any way, "small" if it has to parse Javascript
like that. :P Still, to keep Emacs away from all the heavy lifting is
probably on the right track.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-03 23:26 Emacs for forums? James Taylor
2018-07-03 23:48 ` HASM
2018-07-04 0:37 ` James Taylor
2018-07-05 0:53 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-07-05 3:25 ` Stefan Huchler
[not found] ` <mailman.3096.1530761126.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-05 3:53 ` James Taylor
2018-07-05 4:57 ` Devin Prater
2018-07-05 20:01 ` Bob Newell
[not found] ` <mailman.3119.1530820926.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-05 23:26 ` James Taylor
2018-07-05 23:37 ` Skip Montanaro
2018-07-06 0:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.3129.1530838301.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-06 2:47 ` James Taylor
2018-07-06 5:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.3133.1530855048.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-06 16:05 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2018-07-06 18:53 ` James Taylor
2018-07-06 23:35 ` James Taylor [this message]
2018-07-06 19:35 ` Bob Newell
2018-07-06 19:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-07-06 5:27 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.3132.1530854845.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-08 18:32 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.3093.1530753915.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-05 1:43 ` James Taylor
2018-07-05 2:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-07-05 2:57 ` Stefan Huchler
2018-07-05 3:07 ` James Taylor
[not found] ` <mailman.3095.1530759497.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-05 12:56 ` Emanuel Berg
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