From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to use another GUI client and connect it to Emacs? Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:46:14 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87h9t6ys7d.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <65032dea-8fc9-4dce-b477-802c46fdc837@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427496925 32615 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2015 22:55:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 22:55:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 27 23:55:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybd9q-0006gV-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:55:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybd9p-0000zk-3u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:55:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net RYS8Ds6l+t3A1Tn0yRhicQqZaaZwO67OLtfO17OwqlG3ovO4Xt Cancel-Lock: sha1:MDU5YzRkMWVlZmVlZThkYmU1MDBlNjBmZWMxZmY4ZTAxZWViMzYzNg== sha1:NVkW8O9+f1lBpvbJKv2h7zJJ9eE= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211126 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103408 Archived-At: "Tu, Do" writes: > 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? > > Firefox is just an example. In general, I want to create a client that > sends messages to Emacs daemon and receive back messages that tell my > client how to manipulate my GUI objects and my client then starts > handling based on the instructions. Currently, how easy it is to > implement something like that? With X11, it is possible to create a X window inside another X window, even if it doesn't belong to the same process. Therefore, it would be possible to have emacs create an emacs frame inside another program X window. Unfortunately, the API to do that is not exported at the elisp level. A patch to emacs would be required, and of course, the hosting application would have to be modified to invoke emacs for its text editing areas. X11 is under-exploited. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk