From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Embedding Emacs in other apps Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:21:31 -0400 Message-ID: <87wrtcd4t0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <878w72nu23.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739wz6eyq.fsf@gmail.com> <8739wty62x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871vbmbqfl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87aaq94jia.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zky9vsvz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278166908 25183 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2010 14:21:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 14:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tassilo Horn , Lennart Borgman , Eric Schulte , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 03 16:21:45 2010 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 1OV3bD-0002Ly-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:21:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OV3bD-0000l1-6F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59946 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OV3b6-0000kv-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:21:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OV3b5-00036t-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:21:36 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po45.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.79]:43477) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OV3b5-00036a-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (adsl-99-69-53-86.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net [99.69.53.86]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po45.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o63ELVkL031792 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1CF77C011; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:21:31 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87zky9vsvz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:04:00 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:126730 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > The "it" under discussion is a Firefox extension to replace text boxes > > with embedded Emacs frames. Since Firefox has only been around since > > 2003, I strongly suspect that XEmacs has not had "it" since "1998 at the > > latest". > > Not you too! Why do you care? I am not making any statement about priorities, just correcting the topic of discussion. Anyway, I don't think such an endeavor, though a worthy one, fits into the Emacs project. (The hard part---hacking the Firefox DOM to replace text boxes with XEmbedded windows---has nothing to do with Emacs at all, and it should not be difficult to make it handle any kind of editor that supports XEmbed.)