From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to use another GUI client and connect it to Emacs?
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:29:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzj6yoz5u.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 65032dea-8fc9-4dce-b477-802c46fdc837@googlegroups.com
> For example, is it possible for me to write a package that connects Emacs
> from Firefox and exchange messages, so that I can manipulate texts and
> Firefox layout directly from headless Emacs server?
Of course. E.g. you can run "emacsclient --eval <exp>" and it will
execute that expression and return the value.
Or you can setup a TCP connection.
Or you can use dbus.
Not sure what will turn out to be easier from Firefox,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-27 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-27 4:58 Is it possible to use another GUI client and connect it to Emacs? Tu, Do
2015-03-27 10:11 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-03-27 18:52 ` Jacob Gerlach
2015-03-27 22:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-03-30 8:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-03-27 22:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-30 6:46 ` Tu, Do
2015-03-30 16:19 ` Phillip Lord
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