From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: James Taylor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for forums? Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:35:23 -0600 Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <87r2kg2b0k.fsf@openmail.cc> References: <87y3eryk80.fsf@openmail.cc> <874lhfop7f.fsf@127.0.0.1> <87in5vbzv3.fsf@openmail.cc> <8736wycp8h.fsf@openmail.cc> <9FC04800-4439-485E-A718-03566E9814E3@gmail.com> <87y3epb6xd.fsf@openmail.cc> <87r2khaxmg.fsf@openmail.cc> <8xxmuv4fiyu.fsf@macross.sdf.jp> <87va9s2o1p.fsf@openmail.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530920307 11600 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2018 23:38:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 23:38:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 07 01:38:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbaIw-0002tc-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 01:38:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60044 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbaL1-0003lB-85 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 19:40:31 -0400 X-Received: by 2002:adf:bd8e:: with SMTP id l14-v6mr1035413wrh.11.1530920128389; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h21-v6no5023790wmb.0!news-out.google.com!o12-v6ni30921wmc.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 8ONa2Zj4kKlmsLL4z9gC/w.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kzsYjb/18Tdf9FVyGCqqbl2jYAU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223258 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117381 Archived-At: James Taylor writes: > Hikaru Ichijyo 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.