Editing Org-mode syntax in a web-browser (textarea)?

Editing Org-mode syntax in a web-browser (textarea)?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Hi List, 

this question is explicitly *not* about popping up an emacsclient
instance from firefox or chrome to edit an html textarea in Emacs. And
its *not* about emacs-w3m or eww. 

I'm rather interested if there is something like Ymacs
(http://www.ymacs.org/) 

,----
| Ymacs is an Emacs-like editor that works in your browser. Currently
| (starting with tag v0.4 in the code repository) it works in recent
| versions of Firefox (and other Gecko-based browsers), Google Chrome
| and Apple Safari.
`----

that supports Org syntax too? 

I saw Org-mode mentioned in the context of Codemirror, but its not in
its language list (http://codemirror.net/mode/index.html). 

Both of these browser editors are of course extensible, and since they
support markdown, maybe creating an extension for org-mode would not be
so hard, but I would like to know if there already exist some useful browser
editing tools for Org syntax out there?

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

Re: Editing Org-mode syntax in a web-browser (textarea)?

[Ian Barton]

On 25/09/14 07:58, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> this question is explicitly *not* about popping up an emacsclient
> instance from firefox or chrome to edit an html textarea in Emacs. And
> its *not* about emacs-w3m or eww.
>

Not an answer to your question, but I sometimes use Stackedit: 
https://github.com/benweet/stackedit

This can export to several backends, so maybe it could be adapted to 
export in org-mode, although editing in org-mode would be nicer!

Ian.

Re: Editing Org-mode syntax in a web-browser (textarea)?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> writes:

> On 25/09/14 07:58, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> this question is explicitly *not* about popping up an emacsclient
>> instance from firefox or chrome to edit an html textarea in Emacs. And
>> its *not* about emacs-w3m or eww.
>>
>
> Not an answer to your question, but I sometimes use Stackedit:
> https://github.com/benweet/stackedit
>
> This can export to several backends, so maybe it could be adapted to
> export in org-mode, although editing in org-mode would be nicer!

Nevertheless, this is interesting, thx. 

I'm not sure if I'm looking for a rich-text browser editor that exports
to Org syntax, or rather for some tool that makes it more convenient to
directly work with Org syntax in a browser textarea window. 

E.g. tables - nobody would use Org tables if every vertical and
horizontal line/dash would need to be typed in manually ... thats just
to tedious. 

I wonder if there is something browser-based that is still plain text
oriented, but helps with input/editing like emacs. Of course emacsclient
would be perfect for this, but assume its about 'normal' people who
never heard of emacs and only have their browser with maybe a plugin.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

Re: Editing Org-mode syntax in a web-browser (textarea)?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> writes:
>
>> On 25/09/14 07:58, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> this question is explicitly *not* about popping up an emacsclient
>>> instance from firefox or chrome to edit an html textarea in Emacs. And
>>> its *not* about emacs-w3m or eww.
>>>
>>
>> Not an answer to your question, but I sometimes use Stackedit:
>> https://github.com/benweet/stackedit
>>
>> This can export to several backends, so maybe it could be adapted to
>> export in org-mode, although editing in org-mode would be nicer!
>
> Nevertheless, this is interesting, thx. 
>
> I'm not sure if I'm looking for a rich-text browser editor that exports
> to Org syntax, or rather for some tool that makes it more convenient to
> directly work with Org syntax in a browser textarea window. 
>
> E.g. tables - nobody would use Org tables if every vertical and
> horizontal line/dash would need to be typed in manually ... thats just
> to tedious. 
>
> I wonder if there is something browser-based that is still plain text
> oriented, but helps with input/editing like emacs. Of course emacsclient
> would be perfect for this, but assume its about 'normal' people who
> never heard of emacs and only have their browser with maybe a plugin.

Actually, looking at https://github.com/benweet/stackedit, one possible
workaround came to my mind, though it might be considered a bit heretical
on this list:

 - Use Google Docs as a wide-spread online editor

 - Write an Google Docs addon to support Org syntax (possible? easy?
   hard? no idea ...)

 - Download the html of the doc

 - Use pandoc to convert the html to org

I read that quite a few research institutions go for the Google Docs
route to enable online collaboration between latex and non-latex users,
and there are several tools that export to latex.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten