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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, pmr@pajato.com, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	lennart.borgman@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	Antoine Levitt <smeuuh@gmail.com>,
	raman@users.sourceforge.net, phil@shellarchive.co.uk
Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:34:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvabeis7ly.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C5778F.2020203@emf.net> (Thomas Lord's message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:05:51 -0700")

> Emacs has the concept that two windows can look at the same buffer.

This is a general problem for the XEmbed thingy, whether it displays
a browser or something else.  There are various ways to punt on the
problem: only draw in one of the two windows put a grey rectangle in the
other, or do a vnc-style "let's copy the pixmap pof the first onto the
other, so even if there's only one active, the other is at least
displayed right".

But it doesn't matter that much in practice: people will just have to
live with the limitation, but it doesn't make the idea unusable.  
You won't get some of the power you usually expect from Emacs, but then
again, you never had this power in Firefox anyway, so it's not like you
lost anything.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-04 22:18 An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05  0:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-05  0:19 ` David House
2008-09-05  2:42 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05  4:53   ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05  6:44     ` joakim
2008-09-05  8:53       ` Phil Jackson
2008-09-05  9:21         ` joakim
2008-09-05  9:30           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-05 11:20             ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06  7:12               ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 10:48                 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06 21:04                   ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 21:36                     ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:49                       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 22:25                         ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:48                           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 23:08                             ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:41                       ` Sean O'Rourke
2008-09-07 23:36                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 16:42                 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-06 16:58                   ` joakim
2008-09-06 19:42                     ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-06 20:20                     ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:54                   ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-06 20:11                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 17:39                   ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 17:49                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 18:29                     ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08  9:22                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 12:31                         ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08 17:07                           ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 19:05                             ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 19:07                               ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 20:27                                 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 20:34                               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-09-08 21:33                                 ` joakim
2008-09-08 21:46                                 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-09  8:11                               ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 22:13                           ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 19:55                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08  9:22                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-05 13:33         ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 13:32     ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 20:40   ` Christian Faulhammer

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