Bastien <b...@altern.org> writes: > Hi Marcelo, > > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm creating a web app that interacts with orgmode files and allows >> you to edit orgmode files on the browser. The edit part is not done. > > Wow, this would be a really useful tool. Can't wait to test this! >
I agree this could be very cool. In browser editing could make Org-mode backed collaboration with non-emacs users much more feasible, and could greatly enhance current Org-mode/git backed wikis. My only fear is that you could end up implementing much of Emacs in JS. Another option for serving Org-mode files could be an Emacs-based web-server, for example elnode [1], which I just ran across today. > >> I'm quite good at Javascript, and I wouldn't mind hacking something >> akin to orgmode elisp code and this will be what I'll do if >> everything else fails, but wouldn't using a grammar be a cleaner and >> more elegant solution? > > Can you tell more about what you mean by "grammar"? > > Back in february, at FOSDEM, someone asked for a description of the > org-mode format specification. This is still something that needs to be > done. Any stab at this (on Worg) would be really nice. You can start > anywhere (headlines, TODO keywords, etc.) > > If the "grammar" needs to be described in a specific format (more than > just a formal description of the various syntactic elements of an Org > file), let us know. > As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I think any formal expression would be more useful if could be fed to existing parser-generation tools to automatically write Org-mode parsers, or perhaps automatically convert between Org-mode and other document formats. I'm not sure however to what degree that is just wishful thinking.. Cheers -- Eric Footnotes: [1] https://github.com/nicferrier/elnode -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
