From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for everything? Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102301118 2347 80.91.229.6 (6 Dec 2004 02:45:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 06 03:45:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cb8sD-0006WW-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:45:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cb91u-0003Fj-Dg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:55:14 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1102301085 10153 166.84.1.3 (6 Dec 2004 02:44:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:44:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127162 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22580 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22580 In article , Joe Corneli wrote: > > > I think it will be a long time before a emacs-based browser would > > work as well as one of the popular web browsers. > > I would be willing to put up with a fair amount of clunkiness in > other departments if I could have a browser in which every text > window was an Emacs window. Replacing Pine & NN with Gnus was a > new birth of freedom for me. > >You can use Lynx and set the editor to emacs. This is what I do, >and it works fine. (Lynx isn't running under Emacs though, just >invoking it.) I'm pretty sure there is also a plugin for Mozilla >that lets you edit text fields with the editor of your choice. >Presumably emacs-w3m also has the feature you're looking for (and it >does run under emacs), though I don't use it personally. > > What do you do to not start up a new emacs each time? Even better, how to awaken an existing emacs, *but* with the lynx-page (or whatever) already sitting in a buffer? Thanks, David