From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to use another GUI client and connect it to Emacs? Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:29:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <65032dea-8fc9-4dce-b477-802c46fdc837@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427495475 10906 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2015 22:31:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 22:31:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 27 23:31:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YbcmF-0003dE-Hx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:30:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbcmE-0000fw-Tp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybckn-0007Dq-9J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:29:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybckj-00009Q-9f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:29:25 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43363) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybckj-00009H-32 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybckh-0002Ls-EO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:29:19 +0100 Original-Received: from modemcable025.222-81-70.mc.videotron.ca ([70.81.222.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:29:19 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by modemcable025.222-81-70.mc.videotron.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:29:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: modemcable025.222-81-70.mc.videotron.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nojWAJfiPXpxmQT56QlRYa/hJZo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103407 Archived-At: > For example, is it possible for me to write a package that connects Emacs > from Firefox and exchange messages, so that I can manipulate texts and > Firefox layout directly from headless Emacs server? Of course. E.g. you can run "emacsclient --eval " and it will execute that expression and return the value. Or you can setup a TCP connection. Or you can use dbus. Not sure what will turn out to be easier from Firefox, Stefan