Re: Embedding Emacs in other apps

[joakim@verona.se]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I've wondered if it is possible to embed emacs in other applications, so
> for example that I can edit textfields in my browser using emacs.  I
> quickly found this NEWS entry for emacs 23.
>
> ,----
> | *** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification.
> | You can embed Emacs in another application on X11.  The new command line
> | option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs.  See
> | http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html| for details about XEmbed.
> `----
>
> But this --parent-id option is only available to emacs, not emacsclient.
> Is that intended or technically not feasible otherwise?  My emacs needs
> about 20 seconds to start, but I always have a server instance in the
> background.  Clearly, I wouldn't want to wait 20 secs to start editing
> some textfield, but simply embed a new frame...
>
> The --parent-id option isn't documented in the texinfo docs, btw...
>
> And the other thing: Is there some example code showing how I can embed
> emacs in my own application?

There are some examples in the emacswiki.

>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
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Joakim Verona