From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: taking over global key events (X, NS, W32) (was: Emacs as a desktop environment) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:36:45 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <874o3t63bm.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87aaebbndz.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307986644 6788 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2011 17:37:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:37:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 13 19:37:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWB4h-0001Gm-1J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:37:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWB4g-000530-DY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50709) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWB4O-00052S-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWB4M-0003nl-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40081) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWB4M-0003mG-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWB4J-00014q-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:36:55 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.133 ([38.98.147.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:36:55 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.133 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:36:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.133 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8FTka+2ScEB2/2GspH5L5yaoDD4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140426 Archived-At: On Tue, 24 May 2011 20:05:28 -0500 Ted Zlatanov wrote: TZ> I think GNU Emacs, at least on GNU/Linux systems, can provide much of TZ> the desktop environment functionality, so Emacs + a window manager like TZ> XMonad is a full desktop experience ... TZ> I'd like to know how much of this can be achieved with today's GNU Emacs TZ> plus the external packages (GNU ELPA, Tom Tromey's ELPA, EmacsWiki, TZ> etc.) available, and how much will require new packages or changes to TZ> Emacs' internals. Can Emacs register to handle some global key events in the X, NS, and W32 environments, for when it doesn't have the keyboard focus? Thanks Ted