From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs plugin system & Gecko embedding Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 13:09:18 +0200 Message-ID: <853aoxc8ip.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <5C8C12A1-373A-4691-B04A-7F1A3832A301@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209985788 9406 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 11:09:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 11:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "R. P. Dillon" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 13:10:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JsyaK-0007nu-Md for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 13:10:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52198 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsyZc-0006dR-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsyZX-0006ZK-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsyZS-0006VC-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44749 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsyZR-0006V1-Bd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JsyZQ-0003SQ-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.85]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258E21049FB; Mon, 5 May 2008 13:09:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F136107D1D; Mon, 5 May 2008 13:08:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-023-121.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.23.121]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CF82BB710; Mon, 5 May 2008 13:09:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 559371C4F903; Mon, 5 May 2008 13:09:18 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (R. P. Dillon's message of "Sun, 4 May 2008 14:33:51 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7030/Mon May 5 06:02:10 2008 on mail-in-08.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96482 Archived-At: "R. P. Dillon" writes: > This is a possibilty - my focus was less on Emacs as a text editor, > and more on the buffer management, search, window configurations (C-x > r w) and kill ring sharing that embedding would offer. Of course, > being able to edit text areas in Emacs would be icing on the cake. The layout of the text areas is not usually suitable for an Emacs window. The "It's all Text" addon for firefox already allows using Emacs/Emacsclient as a text editor for all text areas. I have my doubts that an integration tighter than that is doable with reasonable effort and provides a consistent user interface. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum