From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: joakim@verona.se
Cc: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs plugin system & Gecko embedding
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 14:26:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481EFCEE.5060300@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y76p6mni.fsf@verona.se>
joakim@verona.se skrev:
> David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 4 May 2008, at 22:06, R. P. Dillon wrote:
>>
>>> Out of that post came a comment that having "real" browsing
>>> capability inside of Emacs would be a killer feature. I tend to
>>> agree. I *live* in Emacs and Firefox.
>>
>> A browser inside Emacs: do you agree that this would only make sense
>> if all text editing was governed by Emacs, i.e. each text area was
>> handled by Emacs directly as a buffer?
>> (Is that doable with the new Gecko library?)
>>
>> In that case, why not have an extra port of Emacs that would provide a
>> "text area widget" (and maybe more) to be used as library by other
>> applications written in GTK/GNUStep/Cocoa/whatever frameworks?
>
>
> FWIW I'm working(rather slowly), towards the goal of allowing embedding of
> gtk widgets in emacs buffers. If it suceeds, it would be possible to
> embed firefox in emacs, using the gtk-socket facility which allows for
> easy embedding of xembed capable programs.
>
> Initially the interaction between emacs and embedded apps would be very
> spartan though.
You could go the other way as Emacs can be embedded now. I.e. embedd Emacs in
other apps.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-04 21:06 Emacs plugin system & Gecko embedding R. P. Dillon
2008-05-04 21:19 ` David Reitter
2008-05-04 21:33 ` R. P. Dillon
2008-05-05 11:09 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 11:00 ` joakim
2008-05-05 12:26 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2008-05-05 12:52 ` joakim
2008-05-05 22:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-06 1:02 ` David Hansen
2008-05-06 5:51 ` joakim
2008-05-05 15:14 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-05 15:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-05 16:16 ` R. P. Dillon
2008-05-06 12:00 ` Richard M Stallman
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