Re: Emacs for forums?

[James Taylor]

James Taylor <james@openmail.cc> writes:

> Hikaru Ichijyo <ichijyo@macross.sdf.jp> writes:
>
>> We just don't want to take on so much of this browser functionality that
>> Emacs starts to have some of the same security problems that big GUI
>> browsers tend to have.
>
> Oh, I completely agree with that concern. This would undoubtedly, if it
> ever happens, need to be a "bare minimum" approach that doesn't make
> Emacs an interesting target.
>
> One thought I had was to make a small external program (in a container,
> maybe?) that does nothing more than take the requested webpage and make
> it more palatable to Emacs, with the ability to update and change pages
> on demand and no direct route to Emacs' files from that external
> program. Maybe there could be editable fields that the external program
> sends in a text interface for Emacs, processes after editing, and pushes
> to the current forum site.
>
> Combining that with a password manager like pass that integrates with
> GPG might be interesting as well.
>
> Of course, I don't have the ability to do any of this, it's idle musing
> and no doubt reinventing the wheel in a lot of ways.

And not long after writing this, it occurred to me that what I was
suggesting was not, in any way, "small" if it has to parse Javascript
like that. :P Still, to keep Emacs away from all the heavy lifting is
probably on the right track.