From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extending Emacs with C Date: 11 Nov 2003 19:13:01 +0100 Organization: [posted via Easynet Spain] Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87oevikc42.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <3fb08926$1@news.seqnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068575009 13091 80.91.224.253 (11 Nov 2003 18:23:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 19:23:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AJdAk-0005Xd-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:23:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AJe0v-0008T1-SI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:17:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!easynet-melon!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=g^?4kX:OnRTMImQFP3VbBd4DjF1d]Q Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118135 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14074 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14074 gareth.rees@pobox.com (Gareth Rees) writes: > Siegfried Heintze wrote: > > Are there any documents that can guide me on extending emacs (elisp) > > with C? I want to call some COM objects from elisp. > > You can't do this in vanilla GNU Emacs, because dynamic extensions > provide a way for people to try to get around the GPL. See > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00425.html > > However, if you're happy to recompile Emacs then you can add whatever > functionality you like. See > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DynamicallyExtendingEmacs You could also just have an external COM tool and invoke it with shell-command. Then no need to recompile emacs. -- __Pascal_Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/