Forum OpenACS Q&A: Emacs and web browser text boxes

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9: Emacs and web browser text boxes (response to 8)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 02/27/06 07:01 PM
Sam, you are an Emacs user, yet by choice you type your Forums posts into your browser edit box rather than in Emacs? That seems wacky - I just copy and paste from an Emacs buffer. If someone really cared to, it's probably possible to write some sort of fancy Emacs mode and/or Firefox plugin to improve on the text editor / web browser interoperation, but plain copy and paste works well enough.

Btw, there has been some sort of WYSIWYG-style HTML editor supported in OpenACS for some time. I haven't tried it yet, as personally I like the non-WYSIWYG nature of HTML and similar markup styles.

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10: Re: Emacs and web browser text boxes (response to 9)
Posted by Sam Nicholson on 03/07/06 11:12 PM
Heh, Would that all the world had a .el interface!!! I generally use what's at hand. The context switch is too great when I'm reviewing a set of posts to switch over to emacs and then back to the web browser.

Forums are nice as a record of a specific conversation. Email lists are better transport mechanisms for those conversations, I think.

I'd propose a solution, but you beat me to it in this message: http://www.openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=389793

And very nicely, too.

Cheers!