Re: Emacs plugin system & Gecko embedding

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

joakim@verona.se skrev:
> David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 4 May 2008, at 22:06, R. P. Dillon wrote:
>>
>>> Out of that post came a comment that having "real" browsing
>>> capability inside of Emacs would be a killer feature.  I tend to
>>> agree.  I *live* in Emacs and Firefox.
>>
>> A browser inside Emacs: do you agree that this would only make sense
>> if all text editing was governed by Emacs, i.e. each text area was
>> handled by Emacs directly as a buffer?
>> (Is that doable with the new Gecko library?)
>>
>> In that case, why not have an extra port of Emacs that would provide a
>> "text area widget" (and maybe more) to be used as library by other
>> applications written in GTK/GNUStep/Cocoa/whatever frameworks?
> 
> 
> FWIW I'm working(rather slowly), towards the goal of allowing embedding of
> gtk widgets in emacs buffers. If it suceeds, it would be possible to
> embed firefox in emacs, using the gtk-socket facility which allows for
> easy embedding of xembed capable programs.
> 
> Initially the interaction between emacs and embedded apps would be very
> spartan though.

You could go the other way as Emacs can be embedded now.  I.e. embedd Emacs in 
other apps.

	Jan D.