From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Stephens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:21:23 +0100 Message-ID: <80oce8o07w.fsf@tiny.isode.net> References: <4C3CD120.4040905@swipnet.se> <5A91499A-0470-43FD-9F48-560CEAD3424C@mit.edu> <83wrsyr068.fsf@gnu.org> <83iq4hhjww.fsf@gnu.org> <87sk3lbvv0.fsf@telefonica.net> <83hbk1grnq.fsf@gnu.org> <20100715184118.AAF0A39C741@djcbsoftware.nl> <87pqyo9zxg.fsf@telefonica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279232596 7091 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2010 22:23:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:23:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 16 00:23:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZWpm-0007Ve-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:23:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZWpl-00016A-T3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48976 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZWoJ-00006A-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZWoI-0007NB-5o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rufus.isode.com ([62.3.217.251]:55943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZWoH-0007Mu-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:21:42 -0400 Original-Received: from tiny.isode.net (shiny.isode.com [62.3.217.250]) by rufus.isode.com (submission channel) via TCP with ESMTPA id for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:21:38 +0100 Original-Received: by tiny.isode.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:21:24 +0100 X-Hashcash: 1:20:100715:emacs-devel@gnu.org::v9Rmu3PeDPg3Paco:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000002m9p In-Reply-To: <87pqyo9zxg.fsf@telefonica.net> (=?utf-8?Q?=22=C3=93scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:51:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127398 Archived-At: =C3=93scar Fuentes writes: [...] > IIRC there are some cases of text editors implemented on top of a > canvas. IIRC Tk's text widget, which is the basis for several text > editors, is one of them. I don't think it is. Tk's text widget is separate from Tk's canvas as far as I know. Tk's canvas does have significant scaling issues (or used to have, anyway). Not that one shouldn't or couldn't use some canvas for a text editor, but I don't think there's good evidence that Tk's canvas would be suitable. [...]