Tom Parmenter tompar@world.std.com writes:
Right again, requiring emacs for Wikipedia editing would be a big mistake.
I'd ask for making Emacs a requirement ;) I'd require a minimized SGML, but that's a completely different story I don't want to discuss at the moment.
A lot of the emacs gestures are already in the editor, at least the easy ones like c-a, c-e, c-k, c-t.
Yes, I'm away of those keycombo (I'm using Mozilla's builtin editor). But many a lot key are either missing or, more dangerous, act different. That's merely my fault: using lynx or w3m you can call an external editor--now the question is how well lynx will play with wikipedia.
It would be nice if more of them were there, silently, for those of us whose fingers go that way first anyway.
Agreed. But it will never work as nice as it would using Emacs. I'm used to press the "Alt" labeled key for word boundery related actions (moving, transposing, marking, cutting) and I use Ctrl-w to cut ("kill") a marked region. In the past it already happened that I lost some edited paragraphs pressing "wrong" keys.
And, an emacs minor mode for use on our own editors would also be nice.
Yes. Most probably you can base it on emacs-wiki.el; I'll check it out.