GNOME/Web browser Integration

GNOME/Web browser Integration

[Dave Crossland]

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 :-)

-- 
Regards,
Dave

Re: GNOME/Web browser Integration

[Chong Yidong]

"Dave Crossland" <dave@lab6.com> 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.

Re: GNOME/Web browser Integration

[Dave Crossland]

On 11/08/07, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Okay brilliant :-) Thanks for this tip, very much appreciated! :-)

-- 
Regards,
Dave

Re: GNOME/Web browser Integration

[Richard Stallman]

Should we install wikipedia-mode.el in Emacs?
Is it well written?

Re: GNOME/Web browser Integration

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Should we install wikipedia-mode.el in Emacs?
> Is it well written?

I was the original author for wikipedia-mode.el.  It does simple
syntax highlighting and works fine for the limited feature set it aims
at.  I've since handed over maintainership to Uwe Brauer
(oub@mat.ucm.es), and I can't attest to how it's changed since then,
because I haven't used the later versions.

There is another mode called wikipedia.el, which was being developed
by Paul Pogonyshev, but further development on that seems to have been
discontinued and I don't know how well it works in practice.