From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: googleartist@yahoo.com (Artist) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as platform for the application Date: 20 Sep 2002 08:34:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032555255 9704 127.0.0.1 (20 Sep 2002 20:54:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17sUmz-0002WG-00 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:54:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17sUnP-0000GV-00; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:54:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.159.24.160 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1032536060 1738 127.0.0.1 (20 Sep 2002 15:34:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Sep 2002 15:34:20 GMT Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105118 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1674 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1674 tfb@hurricane.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) wrote in message news:... > googleartist@yahoo.com (Artist) writes: First of all thanks for such a good answer. > > > I'm not positive I understand your question, but I think I do, and > I've done this before: you want to use Emacs as a programming > environment for making a somewhat-editor-like application that's not > actually an editor, and you don't want your end users to need to know > that it's Emacs underneath. Yep, I would like to have it a reading application, where people can search the stuff in big file in a variety of ways. I also want to build a > > To do this, you want to build your own Emacs; You get the normal Emacs event loop, the mode > line, minibuffer, and menu bar, but apart from that, you can control > things to the extent that your users don't have to have any idea > they're using Emacs[*]. The idea If you're going to distribute this > application (internal "distribution" in an organization doesn't > count), you should look into the licensing issues, as I think it would > fall under the GPL (whereas if you just used a standard Emacs as your > environment, you could distribute your application seperately under > whatever terms you wanted). > > [*] Of course, you should still credit Emacs somewhere, like an About > box that says "this application is built on GNU Emacs" -- but you can > control the application to the extent that your users won't need to > realize this. >