From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs plugin system & Gecko embedding Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 13:00:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5C8C12A1-373A-4691-B04A-7F1A3832A301@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209985533 8467 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 11:05:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 11:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 13:06:07 2008 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 4.50) id 1JsyVp-00069V-V3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 13:05:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47025 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsyV8-0002HJ-9l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:04:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsyUr-0002CE-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:04:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsyUq-00028I-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:04:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33244 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsyUp-00027e-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64] helo=gate.verona.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JsyUo-00026i-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 07:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from chopper (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id m45B4WFZ001783; Mon, 5 May 2008 13:04:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <5C8C12A1-373A-4691-B04A-7F1A3832A301@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Sun, 4 May 2008 22:19:53 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:96481 Archived-At: David Reitter writes: > On 4 May 2008, at 22:06, R. P. Dillon wrote: > >> Out of that post came a comment that having "real" browsing >> capability inside of Emacs would be a killer feature. I tend to >> agree. I *live* in Emacs and Firefox. > > > A browser inside Emacs: do you agree that this would only make sense > if all text editing was governed by Emacs, i.e. each text area was > handled by Emacs directly as a buffer? > (Is that doable with the new Gecko library?) > > In that case, why not have an extra port of Emacs that would provide a > "text area widget" (and maybe more) to be used as library by other > applications written in GTK/GNUStep/Cocoa/whatever frameworks? FWIW I'm working(rather slowly), towards the goal of allowing embedding of gtk widgets in emacs buffers. If it suceeds, it would be possible to embed firefox in emacs, using the gtk-socket facility which allows for easy embedding of xembed capable programs. Initially the interaction between emacs and embedded apps would be very spartan though. > > > > -- Joakim Verona