Re: LaTeX-editing TEXTAREAs using w3m?

[Richard Riley]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I have a web server which renders small LaTeX snippets as PDF 
>> or HTML/GIF. The LaTeX snippets can be edited via a browser as 
>> HTML-textarea fields. However, using standard browsers I miss
>> the LaTeX-editing features I have
>> available when editing LaTeX code with Emacs.
>> 
>> One possible remedy would be to use w3m and switch on LaTeX mode when
>> editing textareas.  I have tried this, and the 
>> straightforward way did not
>> work (that is, the w3m information did get lost when I did 
>> M-x latex-mode).
>> Does anyone know if such a feature is easily possible?
>
> This is probably no help, but isn't there a way to open an editor (e.g. the
> value of $EDITOR) from a Web browser for such a text area? If there is, then 
> you
> should be able to use emacsclient (or gnuclient) to do that editing with 
> Emacs.
>
> That's one of the things emacsclient is for: to let you open Emacs from some
> other app. Dunno if Web browsers let you do that easily, though.

Firefox does.

Look into using : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125