From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Embedding Emacs in other apps
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:14:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4rsu5jq.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 201004271800.26807.tassilo@member.fsf.org
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I've wondered if it is possible to embed emacs in other applications, so
> for example that I can edit textfields in my browser using emacs. I
> quickly found this NEWS entry for emacs 23.
You can use firefox extension called "it's all text".
> ,----
> | *** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification.
> | You can embed Emacs in another application on X11. The new command line
> | option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs. See
> | http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html
> | for details about XEmbed.
> `----
>
> But this --parent-id option is only available to emacs, not emacsclient.
> Is that intended or technically not feasible otherwise? My emacs needs
> about 20 seconds to start, but I always have a server instance in the
> background. Clearly, I wouldn't want to wait 20 secs to start editing
> some textfield, but simply embed a new frame...
>
> The --parent-id option isn't documented in the texinfo docs, btw...
>
> And the other thing: Is there some example code showing how I can embed
> emacs in my own application?
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
>
>
--
Thierry Volpiatto
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-27 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-27 16:00 Embedding Emacs in other apps Tassilo Horn
2010-04-27 18:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2010-04-27 18:38 ` Chong Yidong
2010-04-27 18:42 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-04-27 18:26 ` joakim
2010-04-27 18:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-04-28 6:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-05-06 6:47 ` Stefan Reichör
2010-04-28 16:45 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-28 18:06 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-04-28 20:33 ` Jan Djärv
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-29 23:53 Chong Yidong
2010-06-06 21:14 ` Eric Schulte
2010-06-07 16:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-06-11 14:52 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-01 23:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-02 1:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-02 7:01 ` David Kastrup
2010-07-02 9:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-02 22:16 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-02 22:59 ` Chad Brown
2010-07-03 9:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-03 14:21 ` Chong Yidong
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