From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Marsden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The Ultimate Editor Widget -- ? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:44:18 +0100 Organization: LAAS-CNRS http://www.laas.fr/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042721105 21635 80.91.224.249 (16 Jan 2003 12:45:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:45:05 +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 18Z9OF-0005bu-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:44:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Z9Om-0001vj-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:45:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!elk.ncren.net!news.umass.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!teaser.fr!freenix!jussieu.fr!unilim.fr!news.cict.fr!news.laas.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: melbourne.laas.fr Original-X-Trace: kane.laas.fr 1042721058 15575 140.93.21.103 (16 Jan 2003 12:44:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@laas.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jan 2003 12:44:18 GMT X-Message-Flags: Invalid humor format X-Eric-Conspiracy: there is no conspiracy X-Attribution: ecm X-URL: http://www.chez.com/emarsden/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109025 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5553 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5553 >>>>> "pds" == Paul D Smith writes: pds> That way the Emacs window could be swallowed by the invoking pds> application and you'd have a complete Emacs editor within pds> whatever application (Evolution mail content window, Galeon pds> text editor window, etc.) wanted one. XEmacs can (or used to be able to) be built as an editor widget, in Motif, Xt and X11 flavors; this is pretty much what you are describing. I'm not aware of and support for this in GNU Emacs, though possibly the work on the GTK interface makes it easier. -- Eric Marsden