From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Jolitz Subject: Re: Editing Org-mode syntax in a web-browser (textarea)? Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:34:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87ppejmtwm.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87r3z0nq4f.fsf@gmail.com> <542454CB.1050501@wilkesley.net> <87tx3vmuhs.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36059) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXDsS-0003Dz-Sl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:34:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXDsB-0008Py-6p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:34:52 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXDsB-0008O4-1E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:34:35 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XXDrz-0008Vy-NT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:34:23 +0200 Received: from e178062055.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.62.55]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:34:23 +0200 Received: from tjolitz by e178062055.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:34:23 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Thorsten Jolitz writes: > Ian Barton 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