From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk patch version 2, part 1 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:50:30 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <15871.50774.95815.593601@nick.uklinux.net> References: <200212172022.gBHKMN0U015951@stubby.bodenonline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040172986 14119 80.91.224.249 (18 Dec 2002 00:56:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Simon Josefsson Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18OSVZ-0003fA-00 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:56:21 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18OSVx-0004pT-00 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:56:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OSTa-0007a4-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:54:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OST5-0006Ys-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:53:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OSSW-0005xZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:53:13 -0500 Original-Received: from bts-0633.dialup.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.50.121] helo=nick.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OSS9-0005sD-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:52:50 -0500 Original-Received: by nick.uklinux.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7C05876037; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:50:30 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: "Jan D." In-Reply-To: <200212172022.gBHKMN0U015951@stubby.bodenonline.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.3.50.2 Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10239 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10239 > > Is any elisp GTK support planned? Using GTK widgets from elisp would > > be cool. > > Nothing planned. XEmacs have it, but I have not looked at how that is > done. I did read some discussion about it in usenet around the time > it was done, it then sounded quite complicated :-) I'm sure it has been discussed many times before but can someone please explain to me in simple terms (perhaps by way of a brief history lesson) why guile-gtk has has a Scheme interpreter. Does this not result in duplication of effort ? Or does it serve a different purpose ? Nick