begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 08:49:54AM -0700:
[snip]
> I wasn't really referring to the text editors themselves when I asked if
> this stuff was badly designed. I was more referring to the widget system
> and our other software like web browsers and email programs that will
> not simply let you embed an xterm like widget with a text app such as
> emacs or vi running inside of it. Emacs and vi themselves shouldn't even
> have to know that they are running inside such an app and should not
> need any code changes to implement what I have in mind.
You want a "terminal" widget, yes? Something that might look like:
X_Terminal x = X_Create_Terminal( 80, 25, "vt100" );
X_Terminal_Set_Background( x, "black" );
X_Terminal_Set_Foreground( x, "white" );
X_Terminal_Set_Hilight( x, "cyan" );
X_Terminal_Set_Cursor( x, CURSOR_BLOCK, "yellow" );
if ( fork() == 0 ) {
dup2( stdin, X_Terminal_Get_Stdin( x ) );
dup2( stdout, X_Terminal_Get_Stdout( x ) );
dup2( stderr, X_Terminal_Get_Stderr( x ) );
exec( get_env( "EDITOR" ), "/tmp/V0M1TH3X" );
}
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Naturally, in our favorite languages, it would be prettier.
Stewart Stremler
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