Michael O'Keefe wrote:
I still don't understand why all of these applications
(thunderbird, firefox, etc.) or the widget toolkit they were built
with don't implement a GUI widget in which you can embed your
favorite text editor.
Too low a userbase for too much work.
Want an idea of how hard what you want is?
Go look at the amount of work the Aquamacs folks had to do just to get
I wouldn't think it was THAT tuff.
Instead of creating a TopLevel window widget, they use the window given
to them by the parent app.
In fact, the parent app could remap the TopLevel that YFE opens, just
like a Window Manager does to put it's own decorations around it.
True, if you are willing to live in ASCII-only monospaced land.
However, some people actually want multiple character sets to render and
maybe even do so in a proportional way while conforming to the user
setting rather than having a completely orthogonal set of emacs settings
that everybody will complain about having to set.
I know ... philistines ...
The problem is that whatever editor you use wants to inherit its
rendering from the system above it. That's non-trivial without the
proper hooks. Emacs and vi are old enough that they do not have the
proper hooks.
-a
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