From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs plugin system & Gecko embedding Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 11:14:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5C8C12A1-373A-4691-B04A-7F1A3832A301@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210000572 31329 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 15:16:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 15:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rpdillon@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 17:16:48 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 1Jt2QY-0006Pp-Vw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 17:16:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2Po-0004lb-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2PK-0004ap-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2PI-0004a6-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53422 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2PI-0004Zy-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt2PH-0005k3-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt2Oh-0001Em-8s; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:14:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <5C8C12A1-373A-4691-B04A-7F1A3832A301@gmail.com> (message from David Reitter on Sun, 4 May 2008 22:19:53 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:96490 Archived-At: 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?) I agree. If it is a matter only of having a browser display inside the Emacs frame, we might as well do so by fork/exec'ing the other program and telling it to display on part of the Emacs frame. 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? I think that is a separate issue, but it would be a good feature.