Re: A Super Text Widget Thingy

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

pbg1854@garnet.acns.fsu.edu writes:

> 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.

As great as XEmacs is (I use FSF Emacs, but...), it would make a poor
standard text widget.

Think about all the issues involved in making XEmacs look like a 
standard text widget to those who don't know emacs...

 - Is cut and paste consistent with user interface standards?
 - What do you do in the cases where standard emacs keybindings conflict
   with the keybindings users expect (C-x / C-c / C-v to start with)
 - How does it handle line wrapping
 - What happens if you switch buffers inside the text widget?

Etc. Now, it would be nice if user's had the choice of using an
embedded XEmacs where that was natural, but I would certainly not want
to be the standard text widget. (Forgetting about issues of
dependencies, programming interfaces, internationalization (I don't
want to deal with Mule in GTK+!), etc.)

Regards,
                                        Owen