Re: Embedding external application in emacs (or using emacs to control exeternal application)

[Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de>]

>>>>> "Corey" == Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com> writes:

    >> I don't think your first scenario is possible, but here I'm way out of my
    >> depth. Just guessing because I don't know of any other "embedded" app.
    Corey> What modifications to Emacs would be necessary to make it possible? 
    Corey> (I'm guessing this would have to be done in C.)

Uh oh, big ones, I guess ;-)

The (upcoming?) Emacs 23 supports the XEmbed specification. I'm quoting from the
"News file:

      "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 I don't think that this implies the other way round, the case that you want.

This is out of my league, maybe you should post this on the developer mailing
list.

Toto

PS: Please don't eMail me your postings. I have a lot and important work to do,
    therefore checking my news on a 5 minute basis ;-)

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