From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gareth.rees@pobox.com (Gareth Rees) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extending Emacs with C Date: 11 Nov 2003 04:06:44 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3fb08926$1@news.seqnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068553150 23890 80.91.224.253 (11 Nov 2003 12:19:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 13:19:03 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 1AJXU7-0004io-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:19:03 +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 1AJYOE-0006PN-S4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:17:02 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.112.141.206 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1068552404 28325 127.0.0.1 (11 Nov 2003 12:06:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118111 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:14050 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14050 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 -- Gareth Rees http://www.garethrees.org/