[h-e-w] Re: syntax highlighting and remote editing (not what you think)

[Eric S. Johansson]

Geoff Gole wrote:
> If firefox is your browser and you'd like to use emacs to edit
> textareas, you might get some use out of this extension:
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125
>
> I've only run it for a few days, but it's unobtrustive and seems
> stable and reliable.

Apologies for taking so long to respond.  I've had an unpleasant time dealing 
with producing/images and making them bootable with grub.  Boots with QEMU or 
USB CompactFlash adapter.  Won't boot with IDE adapter either through QEMU or 
physical machine.  Anyway, not your worry.

The challenge I have with editing is how do I take the current URL and make it 
something I can use to edit with.  The two solutions I can think of are: 
drag-and-drop URL onto Emacs, and Firefox extension (right-click pick edit, or 
icon).  In both cases the application environment would modify the URL to data 
retrieval flash storage URL.  For Emacs direct access would be somewhat 
difficult because I would need to add some form of authentication that is 
normally handled by a browser interface.  Unfortunately, I am less than the 
newbie making extensions for Emacs or Firefox.  So when I can get to the point 
of changing the browser is awareness/focus to that of an editing environment, 
this edit text areas in Emacs capability could be pretty nice.  It would be even 
nicer if I could edit my Thunderbird handled messages with Emacs as a new frame.

I assume my questions about syntax highlighting are better handled in a 
different Emacs group.  :-)