From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs in a Chrome Tab? (related to NaCl Support for Emacs discussion) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:08:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87boqc1t51.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326143325 10050 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2012 21:08:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:08:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 09 22:08:40 2012 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 1RkMSN-0004Ec-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:08:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkMSM-0005sP-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:08:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:32827) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkMSJ-0005s9-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkMSE-0002xt-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:08:35 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkMSD-0002xl-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:08:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkMSB-00047R-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:08:27 +0100 Original-Received: from ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net ([78.233.218.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:08:27 +0100 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:08:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) 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:147529 Archived-At: 09/01/12 21:41, Paul Michael Reilly > My curiosity peaked recently with the thread on NaCl support for > Emacs.  Not having a clue what NaCl was all about, I took to Google to > find out more.  And if I read it right, it is all about having a > HTML/Javascript/CSS wrapper around a C/C++ native code application > running in the browser. >  Very cool in its own right but simply awesome > if that wrapped code happens to be Emacs.  The NaCl Support for Emacs > discussion seems to be focused on security/library  (crypto) issues > which tend to make my brain hurt so a new thread seems appropriate to > discuss this notion of Emacs running in a Chrome tab.  For all I know > the current NaCl thread might be a totally different NaCl thing than > NativeClient. It is. NaCl is a crypto lib, see http://nacl.cr.yp.to/ > I raised this issue last year (Emacs in the Cloud) but I don't > recollect any mention of NativeClient at that time.  The notion of > opening up a new machine, installing Chrome (if it is not already > installed), heading off to the Chrome Web Store to get the latest NaCl > version of Gnu Emacs, and then using an Emacs tab to edit files/run > shells/install ELPA packages is very appealing to me. > > Is anyone aware of technical "gotchas" that make this notion > unrealizable by a mere mortal in just one lifetime? Isn't that an issue to be tackled by the window managers? Why would it be emacs-specific? I'm not sure I see the point anyway.