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From: Thomas L Roche <tlroche@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs port to Eclipse
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:52:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OFF555AA8A.BDD50541-ON85256E48.00049877-85256E48.0004D5DD@us.ibm.com> (raw)

Sarir Khamsi Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:25:29 -0700
>>> Is there anyone working on a port of GNU Emacs to the Eclipse
>>> framework? 

>>> If not, has anyone looked at how they could work together?

Tom Roche Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:17:15 -0500
>> Not particularly, but 2 things come to mind:

>> * Eclipse can run any COM object in a page (== <view|editor>), so a
>>   COM wrapper would work

Gian Uberto Lauri Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:23:49 +0100
> COM ? BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

> Not S.O. independent :> - 

That's what I thought, until I heard about

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom.html
> At the microscopic level, XPCOM and [Microsoft COM] appear
> identical: Both are interface based and require every interface to
> derive from the same base interface. This base interface defines the
> three methods QueryInterface, AddRef, and Release. Despite this
> common ideological heritage, MSCOM and XPCOM components are not
> compatible or interchangeable -- some sort of wrapper or glue code
> is required for the two to operate together. The embedding wrapper
> for Mozilla is a good example. It allows the browser engine to
> appear as an MSCOM ActiveX control while the browser engine
> internally operates on XPCOM components.

> The biggest contrast between XPCOM and MSCOM is that XPCOM
> technology is open source.

             reply	other threads:[~2004-02-28  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-28  0:52 Thomas L Roche [this message]
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2004-02-28  1:07 Emacs port to Eclipse Thomas L Roche
     [not found] <mailman.432.1077682879.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-25  8:53 ` Kai Grossjohann
     [not found] <200402242049.i1OKnlEq092416@e35.co.us.ibm.com>
2004-02-25  4:20 ` Thomas L Roche
     [not found] <mailman.376.1077632835.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-24 20:38 ` Kai Grossjohann
     [not found] <200402241351.i1ODp3s7412194@e2.ny.us.ibm.com>
2004-02-24 14:17 ` Thomas L Roche
2004-02-24 18:23   ` Gian Uberto Lauri
     [not found] <mailman.327.1077546555.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-24  8:45 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-02-24 11:49   ` Joseph Kiniry
2004-02-24 14:12     ` Kai Grossjohann
     [not found] <200402230625.i1N6PmdK746698@e3.ny.us.ibm.com>
2004-02-23 14:22 ` Thomas L Roche
2004-02-22 21:25 Sarir Khamsi
2004-02-23 10:55 ` Kai Grossjohann

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