From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Skilbeck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any way to use Emacs as the gnome shell looking glass? Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:49:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20120625004946.GB3234@mark-laptop> References: <1340584459.30309.YahooMailNeo@web161602.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340585396 17960 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2012 00:49:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: S Boucher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 02:49:56 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SixV6-0005xQ-2K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:49:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SixV6-0005q5-3V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:49:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SixV1-0005q0-8p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SixUz-0005st-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from li357-97.members.linode.com ([178.79.188.97]:50885 helo=mail.iammark.us) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SixUz-0005sj-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:49:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.iammark.us (host81-152-165-78.range81-152.btcentralplus.com [81.152.165.78]) by mail.iammark.us (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30327ABBB; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:49:47 +0100 (BST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1340584459.30309.YahooMailNeo@web161602.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 178.79.188.97 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85442 Archived-At: Not as far as I know. I mean, you can edit the javascript in Emacs, of course! But I don't know of any further integration. I really wish gnome-shell had been written in Guile. Instead of having to reload the gnome-shell, you would just C-x C-e in your Emacs Guile REPL and see the change instantly. I was talking with a friend recently about this. Kinda like that story of Lisp in outer-space. An aerospace engineer guffaws about having to just enter his change into the REPL running on the hardware out in space and seeing the change in the system immediately, rather than having to recompile a bunch of stuff and the latency involved with that. Admittedly, just having to edit some Javascript and then reload (typing "r") the gnome-shell forgoes a lot of that latency, but just isn't quite as responsive or interactive as a lisp. Such is life! On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 05:34:19PM -0700, S Boucher wrote: > I've now switched to gnome shell 3 (upgraded from ubuntu 10.10 to unbuntu 12.04 this weekend). > > Now, if there was a way to use Emacs to control gnome shell, that would be nice :-) -- - mgs. if all you young men / were fish in the water how many young girls / would undress and dive after