From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas L Roche Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs port to Eclipse Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:52:47 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077930462 24398 80.91.224.253 (28 Feb 2004 01:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 01:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 28 02:07:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Awsx5-0000Jo-00 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:07:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Awsw6-0004qN-LN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:06:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Awsja-000895-LZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:53:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Awsj2-0007l0-Hd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:53:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [32.97.110.129] (helo=e31.co.us.ibm.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1Awsit-0007TW-Ip for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i1S0qo5w226738 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:52:50 -0500 Original-Received: from d03nm120.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.193.82]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i1S0qoHj176034 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:52:50 -0700 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.0.2CF1 June 9, 2003 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D03NM120/03/M/IBM(Release 6.0.2CF2|July 23, 2003) at 02/27/2004 17:52:49, Serialize complete at 02/27/2004 17:52:49 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17297 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17297 Sarir Khamsi Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:25:29 -0700 >>> Is there anyone working on a port of GNU Emacs to the Eclipse >>> framework? >>> If not, has anyone looked at how they could work together? Tom Roche Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:17:15 -0500 >> Not particularly, but 2 things come to mind: >> * Eclipse can run any COM object in a page (== ), so a >> COM wrapper would work Gian Uberto Lauri Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:23:49 +0100 > COM ? BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! > Not S.O. independent :> - That's what I thought, until I heard about http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/ http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom.html > At the microscopic level, XPCOM and [Microsoft COM] appear > identical: Both are interface based and require every interface to > derive from the same base interface. This base interface defines the > three methods QueryInterface, AddRef, and Release. Despite this > common ideological heritage, MSCOM and XPCOM components are not > compatible or interchangeable -- some sort of wrapper or glue code > is required for the two to operate together. The embedding wrapper > for Mozilla is a good example. It allows the browser engine to > appear as an MSCOM ActiveX control while the browser engine > internally operates on XPCOM components. > The biggest contrast between XPCOM and MSCOM is that XPCOM > technology is open source.