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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: pmr@pajato.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se,
	raman@users.sourceforge.net, Antoine Levitt <smeuuh@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, phil@shellarchive.co.uk
Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:42:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myilkyyf.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Kbrxw-0006mU-23@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:12:16 -0400")

"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I proposed years ago that we extend Emacs to the point where it can
> function as a word processor.  This is mainly a matter of adding
> features that let you put things in a buffer (and save them in files)
> to get various kinds of formatting effects.  To display web pages is
> an even more distant goal; it requires MORE new buffer and display
> features.

That's assuming we rely on the Emacs redisplay engine.  The approach
being discussed in this thread is to embedding the output generated by
an external browser library in an Emacs window.

Basically, this involves being able to tell an Emacs window not to draw
the usual Emacs display, but to display the output from an external
process (an embedded browser process) instead.  I think it's very
feasible, assuming someone has the time to do it.  The bottleneck here
is manpower.

(Maybe this would be a good Google Summer of Code project).




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-06 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-04 22:18 An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05  0:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-05  0:19 ` David House
2008-09-05  2:42 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05  4:53   ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05  6:44     ` joakim
2008-09-05  8:53       ` Phil Jackson
2008-09-05  9:21         ` joakim
2008-09-05  9:30           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-05 11:20             ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06  7:12               ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 10:48                 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06 21:04                   ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 21:36                     ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:49                       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 22:25                         ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:48                           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 23:08                             ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:41                       ` Sean O'Rourke
2008-09-07 23:36                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 16:42                 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-09-06 16:58                   ` joakim
2008-09-06 19:42                     ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-06 20:20                     ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:54                   ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-06 20:11                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 17:39                   ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 17:49                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 18:29                     ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08  9:22                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 12:31                         ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08 17:07                           ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 19:05                             ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 19:07                               ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 20:27                                 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 20:34                               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 21:33                                 ` joakim
2008-09-08 21:46                                 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-09  8:11                               ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 22:13                           ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 19:55                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08  9:22                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-05 13:33         ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 13:32     ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 20:40   ` Christian Faulhammer

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