From: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
To: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs in a Chrome Tab? (related to NaCl Support for Emacs discussion)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:11:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGwjgEjBtL0P_hN4=nXij+JG758tH9eQDbbgHM63=BWDDEY-_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Chad, this is an excellent reply. Thanks,
-pmr
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:42 PM, chad <yandros@gmail.com> wrote:
> NativeClient is mostly about using the local processor to cut out server
> round-trips for computations. Unfortunately for your idea, it doesn't
> address the idea of the display engine; native client nexe's are expected
> to use the browser's ui. There is some experimental 3D support for nexe's
> via their alternative to NSAPI, but this is far enough away from Emacs that
> a port would be complex. For your goals, I'd guess that xembed (ala the
> xembed branch) is an easier practical path to a prototype.
>
> This idea, like Tom Tromey's `rebase emacs on Common Lisp', Steve's `Emacs
> in JavaScript', and the various Guilemacs attempts point out (yet again)
> something I would not have guessed when I started with emacs ~22 years ago:
> while the most technically valuable piece of Emacs (aside from its freedom)
> is the extensive libraries of elisp code, the most critical piece is
> actually the display engine. It's very hard to move Emacs anywhere that
> the display engine won't go, and it seems to be very hard to move the
> display engine.
>
> *Chad
>
> P.S. This makes the herculean efforts of things like epoch, multi-tty, and
> bidi all the more impressive. Thanks again to all the wonderful emacs
> hackers out there.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-09 20:41 Emacs in a Chrome Tab? (related to NaCl Support for Emacs discussion) Paul Michael Reilly
2012-01-09 21:08 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-01-09 21:56 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2012-01-09 22:42 ` chad
2012-01-10 7:11 ` Paul Michael Reilly [this message]
2012-01-09 23:26 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-01-10 7:19 ` Paul Michael Reilly
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