Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)

[joakim@verona.se]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> 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".

My patch currently does the "grey rectangle" variant.
This is not so bad as it might appear, at least for the use-cases I'm
interested in, which is buffers with many gtk widgets, many views on
the buffers, but not necesarily the same part in each view.

I agree that usability with multiple views on a buffer with a large
xembed widget would be a quite unstellar experience, at least with my patch.


> 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
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Joakim Verona