jeeger
Man, the textern extension for #firefox is so good. Being able to edit wiki pages in a proper markdown editor (#emacs) is great.
Sep 4, 2025 at 11:18amWeb
Show threadjeegerSep 4, 2025
Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textern/
Textern – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Textern for Firefox. Edit text in your favourite external editor!

Show threadKarl Voit  Sep 4, 2025

@jeeger You think that Emacs is a "proper md editor"? Which mode are you using?

Maybe I'm too influenced by orgmode but I haven't seen any(!) proper markdown editor yet.

Show threadjeegerSep 4, 2025
@publicvoit markdown mode, I think?
https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/
Markdown Mode for Emacs

A major mode for GNU Emacs for editing Markdown-formatted text files.

Show threadKarl Voit  Sep 4, 2025
@jeeger Very primitive to me. 😞
Show threadjeegerSep 4, 2025
@publicvoit that's nice.
Show threadzrzzSep 5, 2025
@publicvoit @jeeger What do you feel is missing? I use the Emacs markdown-mode a lot and I find it very useful. Some of my favorite features are the table support, the code block editing and the list manipulation commands.
Show threadKarl Voit  Sep 6, 2025
@zrzz @jeeger I actually do need to re-check. Last time I checked, it was just a small fraction of the features I'm used from Org-mode so that I did not even bother to work within Emacs but stayed in vim with no particular MD support at all.
Show threadzrzzSep 5, 2025
@jeeger I use the GhostText extension in FF with Atomic Chrome on the Emacs side (which despite the name is not Atom or Chrome specific, the name just reflects its historical origin). This method uses websocket messaging so it doesn't need nativehost support and you immediately see your Emacs edits in the browser's textarea.
GitHub - fregante/GhostText: 👻 Use your text editor to write in your browser. Everything you type in the editor will be instantly updated in the browser (and vice versa).

👻 Use your text editor to write in your browser. Everything you type in the editor will be instantly updated in the browser (and vice versa). - fregante/GhostText

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