From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: making contents of other programs transparent to Emacs Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:39:31 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092235200 24743 80.91.224.253 (11 Aug 2004 14:40:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:40:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 11 16:39:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BuuGc-0007Fc-00 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:39:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BuuKT-0003Ib-5Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:43:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BuuKM-0003IW-Ht for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BuuKK-0003IK-RH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BuuKK-0003IH-Jy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BuuGL-0000Mv-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from lab45.ma.utexas.edu (mail@lab45.ma.utexas.edu [128.83.133.159]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i7BEdVF12559; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:39:31 -0500 Original-Received: from jcorneli by lab45.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BuuGJ-0004WR-00; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:39:31 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us: You are on the way to destruction. 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20080 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20080 This seems like a hard question, and not completely Emacs-specific. Suppose I wanted to make the contents of e.g. an rxvt or Mozilla window readable to an Emacs. What would I need to do? The text is available to X (and I can copy and paste it into other programs) so it also seems that with more work I should be able to treat the text in these other programs as a read-only Emacs buffer.