From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:31:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87iqt6q0na.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <18624.40059.414121.633475@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <48C0BB3A.4080201@pajato.com> <87zlmnezy9.fsf@shellarchive.co.uk> <48C0FC53.4020806@gmail.com> <6fa54e4e0809050420i5132ace5red5a011b69ecd1ed@mail.gmail.com> <8763p795cq.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220876974 3695 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2008 12:29:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pmr@pajato.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se, smeuuh@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, raman@users.sourceforge.net, phil@shellarchive.co.uk To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 08 14:30:28 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 1Kcfsq-0004Cv-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59665 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcfrp-0006AU-BZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:29:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcfrl-00069l-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcfrj-00068h-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:29:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50829 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcfrj-00068W-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:36979) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kcfra-0004DW-MM; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CF0C557E32F; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 08:31:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:22:30 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:103686 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > Switching constantly between Emacs and Firefox (e.g., by making Emacs > open links via a separate Firefox application) is inefficient. > > When you say "switching", what does that refer to? > Are you talking about a UI-level operation? Yes. > In what sense is it inefficient? In the same sense that it's less efficient to perform shell operations in a separate xterm, rather than doing M-! or M-x grep or M-x gdb etc. For instance, it's more cumbersome to arrange to view the browser display and side by side with Emacs, since the browser isn't constrained to an Emacs window.