Re: Emacs design and architecture

[joakim]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 14 2023, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
>>
>>> What I meant is that (a) this technology has advanced layout
>>> capabilities, and (b) can obviously be used for interactive
>>> applications, like an editor.
>>
>> So has nobody yet written a front-end for Emacs that runs in a web
>> browser?
>
> Using PGTK it is allegedly possible to have Emacs run in a browser[0],
> but on my system the command fails with
>
> $ GDK_BACKEND=broadway BROADWAY_DISPLAY=:6  lemacs -Q
>
> (emacs:44517): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:23:14.025: cannot open display: :0
>
>
> [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-12/msg01442.html, 

This worked for me a couple of years ago. Havent tried recently.
>
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Joakim Verona
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