Re: Embedding Emacs in other apps

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Eric Schulte" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Has any progress been made in this area?
>>
>> It seems that given the existence of Emacs support for Xembed and the
>> existence of Firefox support for XEmbed'd plugins (e.g. [1]) most of the
>> hard work for integrating Emacs into a web-browser has already been
>> accomplished.
>>
>> Is there some reason that putting these pieces together is more
>> difficult than it appear on the surface?
>
> Starting with DiamondX example plugin, it is straightforward to embed
> Emacs (directly or via emacsclient) into Firefox.  But to get Firefox to
> change browser text areas into XEmbedded Emacs windows, some more
> Firefox extension code is needed; I don't know how big a job this is.


I think we are in a hurry. The Vim developers are also working on
xembed. We must of course be first ;-)