Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)

[Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Emacs has the concept that two windows can look at the same buffer.
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> But it doesn't matter that much in practice: people will just have to
> live with the limitation, but it doesn't make the idea unusable.  
>   

I didn't mean to claim otherwise.

It will be, as RMS put it, a kludge (and a pandora's box of hassles).

It won't succeed at seamlessly integrating browser windows into Emacs
window management from a user perspective (so it fails at the goal -- i.e.,
won't work).

In all seriousness, people interested in that vision of the future
that includes things like browsing but with Emacs-style windows
might want to work not on the problem of how to embed stuff
in Emacs but on the problems of how to have multiple views
of a single web page.



> You won't get some of the power you usually expect from Emacs, but then
> again, you never had this power in Firefox anyway, so it's not like you
> lost anything.
>   

Certainly but RMS is right when he describes it as a kludge
and likely an endless source of problems (because when a thing
doesn't and can't ever work "quite right" there is a constant
pressure to "fix" it, no matter how many times it has been
"fixed" before).

-t


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