Re: Emacs plugin system & Gecko embedding

[joakim@verona.se]

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

> On 4 May 2008, at 22:06, R. P. Dillon wrote:
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>> Out of that post came a comment that having "real" browsing
>> capability inside of Emacs would be a killer feature.  I tend to
>> agree.  I *live* in Emacs and Firefox.
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> 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?)
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> 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?


FWIW I'm working(rather slowly), towards the goal of allowing embedding of
gtk widgets in emacs buffers. If it suceeds, it would be possible to
embed firefox in emacs, using the gtk-socket facility which allows for
easy embedding of xembed capable programs.

Initially the interaction between emacs and embedded apps would be very
spartan though.

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Joakim Verona