Re: Emacs design and architecture

[Gerd Möllmann]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This makes me think immediately of browser technology.  We all probably
>> know what can be done in web layouts, I guess.  As an example that it
>> can be used for an editor, take a look at the Monaco editor, which is
>> used in VSCode:
>>
>>   https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor
>>
>> (I'm not saying that should be done, or even that it could be done, or
>> anything :-)).
>
> The screenshots in its description sure resemble a ``rectangular canvas
> of rows'' to me, and I can't find its source code to establish if it is
> implemented any differently.  Any pointers?

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that this editor is somehow
non-rectangular.

What I meant is that (a) this technology has advanced layout
capabilities, and (b) can obviously be used for interactive
applications, like an editor.