Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 70, Issue 123

[Roel van den Berg]

> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:09:17 -0700
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Subject: RE: LaTeX-editing TEXTAREAs using w3m?
> To: "'Nicolas Neuss'" <lastname@math.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
        <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Message-ID: <008701c92245$57fd84d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>
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>> 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.

For firefox/iceweasel you can use addon "It's All Text!":
https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/4125

Roel vdn Berg