From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Embedding Emacs in other apps Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:14:01 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <87k4rsu5jq.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <201004271800.26807.tassilo@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272392467 2950 80.91.229.12 (27 Apr 2010 18:21:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:21:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 27 20:21:04 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O6pP3-0007si-I4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:21:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50925 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6pP2-0007Xn-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O6pM0-0003fL-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:17:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44358 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6pLz-0003eE-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:17:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6pLx-0003dZ-Hx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:17:51 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6pLx-0003dH-5t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6pLt-0006Qn-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:17:45 +0200 Original-Received: from 202.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:17:45 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 202.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:17:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHBARgJRFPS0WbMBTC TSG/uJs0yyVHAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABpUlE QVQ4y3VTQXKDMAyUnD7AwvQOhtxj5N4LFh9ow/+/UtlpM0BczWSS0Wola7UBeEb3+3kJ/5p9ZLz3 UI0n0J0Y4K/lh1nG24FhlJOR2LdSKtpV5gfi/Zd+NdaJBbB4D5N0JnfUIVp6obZURkJwS2a8b9uX AkgxA5gCEcknAH1s2z0DPooWmjGKcJR+HNZt+9bm0GtGRycRuZGs98Ffr02vABWGopIAhmXmxnQN BwBXZjgFLHRoqbfeYxCLWqsjLyKhbEHW+A5nEs699Q2O80ALrgHTmUTy6P0MnKyKQpKHpoNWokxs F0D5VegvWmEozyE6nuMiS98mWzlUQ9bW8qYfqOaFtzWlYCqGeIs6HEyl08jkrxUG9MF5ipXpOOpd ZMoXPPVSLWJiiwNNB+eRSyxJZmQKcacikgucnCRiHuJOLmyYJRDPwOqAvY4pA+Wy+VS8G26BAsdb Ph2Hw7ORy/H0IOG0TnaM8Cp0XrFYyU0v2z8AqkifPVbLZ0qo/gsRg60C7p+8Ov9jrUIxFde+jnAq X42hyp/c+ZcnVyUYBarrqZt3+R8450png3cWKgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAwOC0wNS0z MVQyMjoxNDoyMiswMjowMK3VBDcAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMDctMTAtMjhUMTc6MDg6 NDgrMDE6MDDLdIcLAAAAEXRFWHRqcGVnOmNvbG9yc3BhY2UAMix1VZ8AAAAgdEVYdGpwZWc6c2Ft cGxpbmctZmFjdG9yADJ4MiwxeDEsMXgxSfqmtAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qmvQ1aBTuywy6MAIbTX8b41dW2g= 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:124254 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Hi all, > > I've wondered if it is possible to embed emacs in other applications, so > for example that I can edit textfields in my browser using emacs. I > quickly found this NEWS entry for emacs 23. You can use firefox extension called "it's all text". > ,---- > | *** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification. > | You can embed Emacs in another application on X11. The new command line > | option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs. See > | http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html > | for details about XEmbed. > `---- > > But this --parent-id option is only available to emacs, not emacsclient. > Is that intended or technically not feasible otherwise? My emacs needs > about 20 seconds to start, but I always have a server instance in the > background. Clearly, I wouldn't want to wait 20 secs to start editing > some textfield, but simply embed a new frame... > > The --parent-id option isn't documented in the texinfo docs, btw... > > And the other thing: Is there some example code showing how I can embed > emacs in my own application? > > Bye, > Tassilo > > > -- Thierry Volpiatto Gpg key: http://pgp.mit.edu/