Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes: > Ian Barton <li...@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
