Hi, org-mode in a browser would be great indeed.

With https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/butterfly, you can get a terminal
in the browser, then run emacs in terminal mode.  It is not ideal (some
keyboard shortcuts are intercepted by the browser), but it seems quite
interesting.

Olivier Berger writes:

> Hi.
>
> I've had this crazy idea to try and "port" emacs to the Web browser
> (using some tools like [[https://browsix.org/][browsix]]), for the
> purpose of running org-mode inside a browser tab.
>
> Anyone having had the same idea yet ?
>
> Interestingly, porting a C program to browsix currently seem to rely on
> emscripten and LLVM... which might not be the best toolchain for
> building Gnu Emacs... but trolls aside, I'd be curious of the
> feasability.
>
> I'm not exactly sure why that would be worth doing... but I can imagine
> running that Emacs Web browser port over some kind of versioned file
> system, and Emacs conf files (org + tangling, of course), so that you
> have "your" org-mode at hand from anywhere using a URL and a browser
> tab... of course, using a keyboard for browsing that tab would be better
> than a touch screen, re keyboard shortcuts.
>
> Any clues ?
>
> I've already spotted http://www.ymacs.org/ which could be of use, for
> the terminal interface parts.
>
> Maybe browsix already provides everything else that's needed (LLVM,
> emscripten, ...).
>
> Another option could be some kind of use of WebAssembly port, for
> browser compatibility, maybe.
>
> Of course performance would be interesting to benchmark.
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Best regards,

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