Re: [gtk-list] A Super Text Widget Thingy

[pbg1854 garnet acns fsu edu]

I agree, XEmacs is a great program, but if it is easy to convert into
a GTK+ widget, I think it would be a great alternative to the GtkText
widget, especially considering that the widget is going to be
rewritten anyways. If it can be done as a patch to XEmacs, they might
not mind including it with the package.

Pete

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:56:17PM -0500, Matt Gushee wrote:
> Well, there are probably others who have greater knowledge on this
> issue, but as a devoted fan of XEmacs (or any Emacs, really), I feel I 
> have to say something about this:
> 
> pbg1854@garnet.acns.fsu.edu writes:
> 
>  > I was thinking about XEmacs, and how it allows you to embed it as a
>  > widget inside your program, and I thought it would be really cool if
>  > GNOME/GTK+ had its own XEmacs type text editor widget that was
>  > completely scriptable, and acted completely consistently across
>  > apps.
> 
> Yes, it would be cool. But do you have any idea how much work has gone 
> into (X)Emacs? Some of the best minds in the free software world (RMS, 
> Jamie Zawinski ... just for starters) have worked very, very hard for
> years to make it what it is.
> 
>  > library. I know we could probably hack XEmacs to work with GTK+, but
>  > it would probably be best to write one from scratch, to make it
>  > seamlessly join in with the rest of GTK+ and GNOME.
> 
> I don't believe it's a matter of hacking anything, really. I'm not too 
> familiar with the internals of XEmacs, but AFAIK the heart of the
> XEmacs code base is very independent of GUI toolkits, and it
> already supports several alternative widget sets.
> 
>  > Has anyone thought
>  > about doing something like this before? I think it would be really
>  > cool, and would be a great contribution to the GNOME project.
> 
> Perhaps. But what kind of contribution would it be to the Emacs
> project? There are already two major Emacs development teams (FSF and
> XEmacs, of course), and it's my understanding that nobody on either
> team is very pleased that they can't manage to work together.
> 
> I hate to dampen your enthusiasm. As I said above, I agree it's a cool 
> idea. If only all cool ideas were good ones ...
> 
> Matt Gushee
> Portland, Maine, USA
> 
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