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Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser
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Lennart Borgman |
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Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser |
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Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:59:41 +0200 |
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Chong Yidong<address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
>> I would like to point to:
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsXembed
>>
>> I have some screenshots there of my xembed patch for emacs that allows
>> xembedding for instance a video player(mplayer in the screenshot) in emacs.
>>
>> I am currently making a small xembeddable wrapper on webkit that I will
>> make some screenshots with to show Emacs embedding a browser.
>
> That's excellent news.
>
> On a technical note, I think it makes more sense to associate embedded
> applications with Emacs windows, rather than buffers as you're
> apparently trying to do. Otherwise, we run into the problem of handling
> the situation where the same buffer is displayed in more than one
> window. Basically, we should have a way to say "the contents of this
> window are handled by an embedded program, rather than by Emacs". WDYT?
You perhaps still need some buffer elements otherwise the embedded
application would go away when you closed a window. That could maybe
be ok, but it is not the way use to behave in Emacs.
Other than that I think it is a good suggestion.
- Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, Fernando, 2009/07/08
- Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/08
- Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, joakim, 2009/07/08
- Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, joakim, 2009/07/08
- Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, Jason Rumney, 2009/07/09
- Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, joakim, 2009/07/09
- Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/09
- Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, joakim, 2009/07/09
- Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, Richard Stallman, 2009/07/09
Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, Richard Riley, 2009/07/08
Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, Paul R, 2009/07/09
Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/11