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Life & fun · December 2, 2022

A web front end for your Org-files

emacs-viewer - A web frontend for your Org-files (100% faithful to GNU+Emacs!)

A web front end for your Org-files launched on December 2, 2022 with 92 votes, #494 of 3,688 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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In plain words

This is a web-based interface designed to display and interact with Org-files, the plain-text format commonly used in the Emacs text editor. It allows users to access their Org-mode documents through a browser rather than requiring direct file editing. The tool is intended for people who work with Org-files and want a more accessible way to view and manage them online, making it useful for task management, note-taking, and documentation workflows.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

A web frontend for your Org files! (100% faithful to GNU+Emacs!) Emacs_viewer requires OCaml 4.14.0 to build, to install the project dependencies, simply run: opam install --deps-only . Then to build the executable, simply run: dune build --release ./bin/main.exe Copy the executable in ./_build/default/bin/main.exe to somewhere convenient with the name emacs_viewer (on your path), and run to your hearts content! ./emacs_viewer --help NAME emacs-viewer SYNOPSIS emacs-viewer [--client=VAL] [--debug] [--port=VAL] [OPTION]… OPTIONS -c VAL, --client=VAL Command to use for Emacsclient, defaults to emacsclient.emacs. -D, --debug Whether to run in debug mode. -p VAL, --port=VAL Port to run server…from codeberg.org

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