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: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:12:16 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220689639 22084 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 08:27:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 08:27:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pmr@pajato.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@users.sourceforge.net, phil@shellarchive.co.uk To: "Antoine Levitt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 10:28:13 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 1Kbt9P-0002uO-5j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:28:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kbt8P-0001pS-Io for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kbt8J-0001mI-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kbt8H-0001lU-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52695 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kbt8H-0001lI-Ky for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:55440) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kbt8H-0002rV-F4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Kbrxw-0006mU-23; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:12:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <6fa54e4e0809050420i5132ace5red5a011b69ecd1ed@mail.gmail.com> (smeuuh@gmail.com) 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:103583 Archived-At: To make Emacs display web pages with their correct appearance is a gigantic job. I don't think that linking Emacs with a web browser display engine is a feasible method. I proposed years ago that we extend Emacs to the point where it can function as a word processor. This is mainly a matter of adding features that let you put things in a buffer (and save them in files) to get various kinds of formatting effects. To display web pages is an even more distant goal; it requires MORE new buffer and display features. I would be very glad to see people start working on some of them.