From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How run many varied apps in Emacs like a window manager? Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:33:08 +0000 Organization: I try Message-ID: <877i3g4o17.fsf@it.com> References: <5bb20fe4-3da8-41ca-9a74-b4db81920c97@h16g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235455596 7680 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 06:06:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:06:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 07:07:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LbqQE-0007eb-Qa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:05:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbqOu-0003MC-8C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:04:16 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:33:08 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Cancel-Lock: sha1:PxHNGyVBUeuiWdJLN7Kweivu+7M= Original-Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-74EVoNccf6MEERB61emPpVAZRaYFym58MpYwk/O00/njxyD/d+1dNs4FpQhKlUE2eBQeYFg5sqBhxZA!ODzJxcfbBTVaouVTAgN9qQScOuDNmGDWFPNcC/R7 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167000 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:02:04 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62313 Archived-At: "seberino@spawar.navy.mil" writes: > Possible to run many varied app in Emacs? In other words, I want to > use Emacs like my window manager. > > I don't necessarily want to use apps (like mail and IRC) specific to > Emacs...rather I want to use *arbitrary* apps in Emacs. > > I know about term-mode. I don't know if that is the best or only way > to do this. > > Does anyone do this? Is it advisable? Hi, never tried it myself but you could give this a go: http://www.nongnu.org/xwem/ -- aleblanc